by pivotpl | Apr 7, 2020 | Pivot's Pencil, Uncategorised
Set tasks that are easy to start In a remote learning environment, students don’t have you immediately available to provide support and may find it difficult to ask for help from their family members. You can make it easier for students to get started with their maths...
by pivotpl | Apr 2, 2020 | Pivot's Pencil
Today, Pivot founder and Director Cleo Westhorpe interviews Narelle Carlon, Online Teaching and Learning Project Office at Western Australia’s School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE). Tell us a little bit about yourself. How long you’ve been at...
by pivotpl | Mar 26, 2020 | Pivot's Pencil
As many schools, teachers and students prepare for a remote learning environment, it is worth giving consideration to the neurodiversity of the learners we are engaging with. There are a number of things you can do to retain the quality teaching and learning that...
by pivotpl | Mar 25, 2020 | Pivot's Pencil
“[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.” Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera As we hear more about the spread of coronavirus, many of us are experiencing high levels of anxiety and...
by pivotpl | Nov 23, 2019 | Pivot's Pencil
A crisis-level shortage of qualified maths teachers, students’ shrinking confidence and interest in maths, and the growing importance of maths skills to the economy (AMSI 2019) mean that more than ever, Australia needs to identify characteristics of top teachers to...
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