Mrs A's Blog

My Rambling Thoughts on Teaching and Learning

High school

Online Personalised Learning In Secondary Schools

            Educators try to find ways to make education accessible to all students every day. As a fundamental human right (UN General Assembly, 1948), a one-size-fits-all system does not cater to every child (Consortium for School Networking, 2019). One pedagogical approach is to use personalised learning to ensure the needs of all students are met […]

Community of Practice

Over the last few years, communities of practice have become the latest thing to be implemented in education. A concept that started as “a social learning system” (Wenger, 2010, p. 179), it has since grown to a “field of knowledge management” (Wenger et al., 2002, p. 5), thus becoming an easy way to share knowledge […]

Online Personalised Learning

Is it Possible in a High School Course? Introduction The Universal Declarations of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right to education” (UN General Assembly, 1948, p. Article 26). Schools in their current form are a one size fits all system which does not cater or even allow access to education for every student […]

It’s Hard to be a Kid!

I didn’t realise until the last few weeks just how hard it is to be a kid in High School. I know as an adult I would love to redo high school and with all the knowledge I have now.  Life would have been very different I am sure.  My 13 year old was ill […]