Sea change...

Welcome to my first post on this blog and to blogging.

I am an experience High School teacher in Adelaide, South Australia, going through a bit of a "sea change" in my work.

Up until last year I was highly involved in the upper end of education. In fact, I was Year 12 Coordinator for the last three years. Year 11 Coordinator for the two years before that.

I felt, though, after five years that I was bashing my head up against the wall trying to convince senior students to be more than mediocre. My view has not changed but my methods have. I have decided to try and change things as the beginning of high school life, not the end.

I am now (mainly) a Year 8 teacher trying to come to grips with teaching three subjects to a group of excitable, enthusiastic but reasonably raw 13-14 year olds.

I hope to use this blog as a means of reflecting on what happens in my class and I am interesting in hearing from others going through the same process.