This website supports the English Programme at Casino High School NSW
Do explore it thoroughly; there are good things for parents, teachers and students. Very well designed too. Congratulations to Lyn Tiernan and her team.
Posts Tagged ‘advice to parents’
13 Dec
Another excellent Aussie English Studies site
3 Dec
ADHD, etc
I really am not an expert on this, but I have certainly encountered examples during my teaching career. Quite often, especially early on, I probably did not handle such people well either.
I was prompted by tonight’s 7.30 Report to write a post on Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder. The report showed strong neurological evidence [...]
12 Feb
Tutoring, reality, and results
I have written on coaching before. As you will see if you check the “About” page, I do tuition in Chinatown here in Sydney — one-to-one only — and have for some time. Tuition is meant, in my opinion, to supplement what the school might be doing; it certainly does not substitute for the school, [...]
24 Dec
ESL and the Art of War — from my archives
A Talk to Bilingual Parents
I gave this talk at the first NESB Parent Night at Sydney Boys High in 2000.
There are times when I am quite proud to be an Australian. One of those times was late 1998 when I made friends with a backpacker named Kyohiko Kato from Sendai, Japan. Why was I [...]
16 Dec
Thoughts on coaching
Consumer Guide to Coaching
I was coached–by my grandfather, a retired teacher, in Mathematics. It was only that and former SBHS Principal Bob Outterside’s teaching that enabled me to get through a subject in which I was far from gifted or talented!
It was a good deal, mind you; rather than me paying the coach, he paid [...]
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