Mrs A's Blog

You may know that I’m a runner.  I have been running since the day that I came 10th in my Year 8 school cross country carnival.  To be honest at the time I had just decided that if I made it to the finish line then it was going to be a good day.  Before […]

I know that I reflected on 2011 last post and I know that we are now a week into 2012 however I really have been spending the week reflecting on my life.  Most people who know me well know that the last three years have been really hard.  I have struggled both personally, and professionally.  […]

As many people seem to be doing at this time of year I thought that I would look back at what has been 2011 for me professionally. Accomplishments School Help Site set up with pages ready to go for the year Successful implementation of the Problem Based Approaches Intel Teach Course Digital Profile Cards Maintained […]

For work at the moment we are reading “Flourish” by Martin Seligman.  The book looks at Positive Psychology and creating your own Happiness.  At the begining of Chapter 2 it recommends that you remember the face of someone who is still alive that did or said something which changed your life for the better.  You […]

I recently was trying to work out ways I could help my Year 12 students to remember their rather complex diagrams in the lead up to their IB final exams.  After thinking about it for awhile I realised that they had the basics of the diagram it was just a matter of remembering the particulars.  […]