Now I think about what I do in relation to the course I had better make a note of it!

Yesterday I was on my own – I usually have an assistant. This may seem like a luxury but as text books at this high school are leant through the library system we have constant students borrowing and returning text books. Yesterday I taught plagiarism to two year 7 groups and worked with a group of senior students studying Legal Studies to access great websites such as Bocsar (https://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/) and ANROWS (https://www.anrows.org.au/) and the fabulous eresources at NSW State Library. Students were interested and engaged at looking at relevant and valuable academic resources. I spent half an hour unjamming the printer and cataloguing books that had suddenly arrived without barcodes as well as covering them in plastic.

Today I worked with two science groups (my suggestion) to try an inquiry type approach to learning. Science teachers on board and they gave the students an interesting article to read that they had to make bullet points from. Students seemed engaged and busy. First attempt at this whole group approach but makes teaching more interesting and hopefully more relevant and accessible to all students.