by mindroar | Mar 20, 2020 | blog, Crash Course Study Skills, teaching study skills
Feeling about fifty weeks pregnant on a sweaty, dusty day about a year ago, I stumbled across my old university lecture notes while packing boxes to move house. When I read through them, I realised I had written notes that were chunky, random, and disorganised. Sound...
by mindroar | Nov 25, 2019 | #teacherlife, blog, Crash Course Study Skills, teaching strategies, teaching study skills
Have you ever read your student notebooks when they take independent notes and face-palmed? I know I have – it can feel like they have not listened at all when their notes don’t reflect the lesson you think you have given. When this happens, you know...
by mindroar | Nov 18, 2019 | #teacherlife, blog, Crash Course Literature, Crash Course Study Skills, free resources, teaching, teaching resources, video resources
It’s 4pm and you were supposed to pick up your kids from daycare half an hour ago, but you still have to figure out how to introduce that content-heavy lesson for tomorrow’s third period Year 9 English class. Your stomach sinks because you need to be...
by mindroar | Oct 11, 2019 | blog, Crash Course Study Skills, teaching resources, teaching strategies, teaching study skills
The first time I studied properly was for a Year 12 for a Biology exam I wanted to get an A in. I re-read all of my notes for the whole unit, summarised the main ideas, condensed the main ideas into single words that ‘triggered’ other information, and...
