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A Matter Of Perspective
Driving through the fog used to fill me with frustration. The traffic would slow to a crawl and I knew that it would add at least another 5 minutes to my trip. Since following the same road through Belair with my daughter, though, the experience has become completely...
Formative vs Summative Assessment
Many of you will have received NAPLAN results for your child recently and you may have heard the suggestion that NAPLAN-style testing should be replaced with a ‘formative’ assessment process. If you’re wondering what this means, you’re not alone. Robert Starke summed...
Springtime Goalsetting
It’s the first day of September and sure enough, the sun is shining. While the temperature is just in the high teens and if I’m honest I do still feel a twinge of jealousy at the 30 degree forecast where my parents live up in Cairns, I think wearing a t-shirt...
Raising confident kids
As a tutor, I see first hand that confidence plays a key in the success our children have, both socially and academically. In fact, instilling self-belief is absolutely necessary if we are to make any progress with students acquiring any literacy or numeracy...
Apps that can help your child get organised
While most of us would agree that our kids spend too much time on their iPads, there are actually tons of applications out there that can be quite useful for students. If they can't put it down anyway, why not put that device to some good use? ...
Mesh Learning Secrets
Mesh secrets revealed! From time to time I get asked why the tutoring we do at Mesh is so successful. While my usual response would be that we try to give each student what he/she needs as an individual, there are some key policies that we have in place across the...