#maternityteacher

by | Sep 5, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD

Recently, I wrote one of my first blog posts that veered towards an opinion piece rather than a post based entirely on sharing practical teaching strategies, focusing on how to make productive use of my six months of maternity leave, and how this time could be used as...

The Power of Networking

by | Sep 5, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD

Networking is important: it builds connections and communities with likeminded people. It enables you to tap into expertise and experience that you don’t have and learn from it. It can introduce you to lots of lovely, abstract ideas like wisdom, reflection,...

Maternity Leave

by | Jun 18, 2016 | Parental Leave CPD

Some of you may be regulars to my Comment-Ed blog and know that mostly it is filled with practical strategies and ideas to try out in class, with a little bit of pedagogy/ reasoning thrown in for added conviction. I rarely write ‘opinion pieces’ –...