My Student Life

Sport Kid likes his music teacher above all of his teachers, because his music teacher chats to him and asks him questions about his life. Sport Kid feels like his music teacher cares about him.  Sport Kid likes his music teacher above all of his teachers, and not because he loves learning a musical instrument, in fact, it has nothing to do with the subject that this particular teacher teaches. It is because the music teacher chats to Sport Kid and asks him about his life, he puts in effort to kid to know sport kid and sport kid feels like his teacher cares about him. Sport Kid says that he knows all about his teacher too and they talk about what they do on their weekends and the sport that they play.  Sport Kid, who has had a lot of behaviour issues in the classroom, got an award last week in Music for the effort that he has been putting into his lessons. Sport Kid isn’t named Music Kid, because he doesn’t have much interest in music, but he is prepared to sho...

Computer Kid Week 3 Term 1  This week I had Art, Geography, Sport, Latin, Math, English, Science, Textiles, PD.H.PE. My favourite subject this week was Art. In Art we are learning about dragons so we can make a ceramic one, so this week we have been watching Dragon Heart the movie. My Art teacher is my favourite this week because he has let us watch a movie as part of our learning this week. Some people might say that watching a movie isn’t good for study but in this case it is because we can see what the dragons look like so that we can make our own. I love that we learnt about dragons and got to watch a movie in class. The worst subject that I had this week was Math. Once again it came down to the un-realistic scenarios. If the teacher used more realistic scenarios it would make me like my math lessons a lot more interesting.  I understand that the teacher is just trying to teach us math and I want to learn, but if the scenarios are too un-realistic then ...

Sport Kid Week 3 Term 1  This week I had English, Maths, Chinese, History, Science, Mechanics and Music. My favourite subject this week was Music, the same as last week. This week we learnt another song, it was a really old wedding dong and I got a merit award from the Music teacher for learning it so well. My Music teacher was my favourite teacher again this week because he is always calm with the class. He is also really nice and makes me feel like he cares about me, he always asks me how I am, how I am doing and what I am doing on the weekend. He chats with me and I have found out that he plays netball. The worst subject this week was science because the lesson was all theory, we read out of a textbook and copied down what we were reading into our exercise books, it was really boring. On the plus side the teacher didn’t yell at this week. My teachers were good this week, none of them yelled at me or the whole class and I felt like I learnt a lot this week....

Especially if the Ipad has simply replaced the textbook and the full advantages of having Edtech in the classroom isn’t utilised! Integrating Edtech in the classroom can be a beautiful thing and if you are lucky enough to have a set of Ipads at your disposal, your options are almost limitless for creating a fun, interactive classroom. But just because students are holding an Ipad doesn’t necessarily mean they are engaging in the learning experience. This week Sport Kid told us how he had a double lesson of Mechanics where his class read theory off the Ipads. Regardless of the access to an Ipad, Sport Kid found this lesson boring and not engaging because reading for 2 hours from an Ipad or a book has little difference when it comes to being engaged with your lesson content. Most students these days would be classified as bodily-kinaesthetic learners and the Ipad certainly appeals to the kinaesthetic learner through the motion sensor in the screen that allows students to...

Sport Kid Week 2 Term 1 This week I had Visual Arts, English, Maths, History, PD.H.PE, Science, Mechanics and Music. My favourite subject this week was Music and my favourite teacher was my Music teacher. I really enjoyed music because it was a hands-on practical lesson where we got to learn a new song called “Frere Jacques” on the piano. I enjoy learning with my Music teacher because he has a different way of teaching than other teachers. He is really chill and relaxed in class. The subject that didn’t enjoy this week was Mechanics. We had a double Mechanics lesson and we read theory on iPads for both lessons. It was really boring. The lesson could have been a lot more interesting if we could have had a change of activity in the second lesson and been able to do some practical work.  Are you looking for teacher professional development courses? Extra Credit has a range of online courses for developing your knowledge and skills and increasing your PD hou...

Computer Kid Week 2 Term 1 This week I had Art, Geography, Sport, Latin, Math, English, Science textiles and PD.H.PE. Once again my Latin teacher was my favourite teacher this week for he was the most engaging. I hate to be repetitive but my favourite lesson this week was also Latin.. This week, my Latin teacher made learning Latin fun by getting us to translate and act out a play. I liked the idea of translating a play, because we could use the end result of our translation to create a play, it gave us a purpose for doing the translation.  My least favourite subject this week was Geography. I found Geography really boring and frustrating because I felt like we were being taught useless facts that are never going to be useful in my life. We studied Antarctica for all three lessons this week. For all three lessons the teacher stood at the front of the classroom and spoke to us.  All of our learning was listening to the teacher talk and completing works...