Category: Learning

November 8, 2018 Island Teacher

Great Schools have always been more than a collection of great teachers.  Too often we individualise great teaching to a formula that often ignores the power of the collective.  Or we fail to include the power of individual teacher efficacy in the formulaic compiling of characteristics of great teaching.  In…

September 20, 2018 Island Teacher

High-quality Textbooks – A luxury Or An Essential? High-quality textbooks and teaching methods are increasingly seen by many curriculum experts as an essential part of ingredients for quality learning outcomes. However, that is not a view that is universal. You only have to look at blog articles bemoaning the use…

September 8, 2018 Island Teacher

One of the first environmental books I read was Pollution and the Death of Man: The Christian View of Ecology, by the renowned author and thinker Francis Schaeffer. I was given an old yellowed copy of the book about 30 years ago.   At the time of writing his book back in…