Many language teachers may feel frustrated by a lack of support or understanding from the school executive. You work incredibly hard all year running excursions, incursions, overseas trips, speech contests and hosting sister schools. You spend hours filling in lengthy risk assessments and taking …
GROWTH MINDSET – MORE THAN JUST A POSTER ON THE WALL
Carol Dweck, the researcher behind the growth mindset movement, was recently quoted discussing common misconceptions of her theory. “It’s not about educators giving a mindset lecture or putting up a poster – it’s about embodying it in all their practices.” So how can we authentically …
Using Data to Increase Enrolments
Term 4 can be a traumatic time of year for language teachers. Teachers of compulsory subjects have little understanding of the pressure that teachers of elective subjects are under. Nobody enjoys the wait to hear whether their subject will run as an elective in the coming year. The goal of many …
