Ian

Humanities Teacher, lifelong learner, coffee addict. Based in Australia.

[Ian @mrianzw]

An uplifting quote from @JaneCaro from her essay (book) “Rich Kid Poor Kid: The battle for public education.” Lots to think about and mull over, even for those who do teach in private education.

[Ian @mrianzw]

“Democracy for all requires education for all. The two are indivisible. They are both products of the same essential moral value namely that all human beings are created equal and should have as equal as possible rights to learn and develop… as citizens and human beings.”

[Ian @mrianzw]

Student: "Is it too late now to say sorry?"

Me: "It's too late to apologize, it's too late."

[Ian @mrianzw]

"If Adolescence got under your skin, good. That’s where change starts."

Adolescence got under my skin, and still does. I found this article from @tomorrowman_au incredibly helpful in what teachers (and parents) can do next in response:

https://t.co/srivEukSMl

[Ian @mrianzw]

Finished watching Adolescence a couple of days ago and I’m still processing the show and what it means for the students I teach.

Surely I can’t be the only one?

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

The double-edged sword of SEND labels:

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[Ian @mrianzw]

Couple of student responses:

“One threat to democracies is the Queen of England dying because she was a good queen and now we don’t want to be having a king.”

“The United States is a threat [to democracy] because Australia follows them which might turn us into a republic.”

[Iain McD @pop_rambler]

The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access.
This is news.

https://t.co/jsaSsrIVxB

[Ian @mrianzw]

Graphing the tension in Europe from 1945 to 2005 as part of our revision in Year 12 Modern History. Great idea stolen from a @WA_HTA seminar.

[Nick Hart @MrNickHart]

Victoria State produces some great work around school leadership.

Here are their High Impact Wellbeing Strategies:

https://t.co/jZCWvwm1yD

[Ian @mrianzw]

Reflecting on the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup as I update the unit on the diffusion of football for Year 11 ATAR Geography.

Incredible competition, incredible stats.

[KEEPUP @keepupau]

The 2023 World Cup in 🇦🇺 & 🇳🇿: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 🔥👏👇

- 1.97 million fans at games, eclipsing the previous record by 600,000 📈

- Australian broke their record attendance for a women’s football match - and equalled it twice!

- New Zealand broke their record attendance for a football game 🏟️

- 11.15 million viewers for Australia v England on Channel 7, the most watched TV Event in Australian history!

- The longest shootout in World Cup history in the quarter-final between the Matildas and France 🤯

- Matildas secured Australia’s best finish at a World Cup 💪

- The Football Ferns won their first-ever World Cup match ✅

A truly magic month 🙌

#FIFAWWC #DubAtTheCup

[Ian @mrianzw]

Phrase of the day:

"Year 11's - noise volume is too loud. There is too much humming and spontaneous combustion of words."

[Ian @mrianzw]

Motivating the students in the @ASX Schools Sharemarket Game. First time we’ve run it properly at our school so it was fantastic see students across HASS, Economics and those just interested join.

Printed in A3 and laminated because I happen to be in first place 🙃

[Ian @mrianzw]

The link above (no paywall), and the article below, was written in 2008 in the @nytimes.

“You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.” - Tim Walz

[Ian @mrianzw]

1990’s Tim Walz was a teaching trailblazer and provided his students a front row seat to history.

This is why teachers teach HASS — not to remember cities or draw demand supply graphs. But to analyse history and apply it to the real world.

https://t.co/VX49KIAqfr

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

Ms Haq showed me there was no ceiling on what I or my friends could achieve.

She set high standards and saw no reason we should not meet them. This is the difference great teachers make.

That's why we start now fixing the recruitment & retention crisis.
https://t.co/nJm1hjXF76

[Emily-Grace Folorunsho @MissFolorunsho]

🎉📚 I'm doing a #giveaway of three copies of our new book!

❤️🔃Like and retweet to enter.

Winners announced next Friday, 5th July! 🎁 https://t.co/Mort29ugFQ

#BookGiveaway #NewRelease #historyteachers #eduBookCommunity #Freebie #GiveawayAlert

@LGladwin07 @BloomsburyEd

[Ian @mrianzw]

Student: “How do you write a diary entry about someone fighting?”

Me: “It’ll go something like this — “I am on the Kokoda Trail. Eeeek! A dead body. I fainted.””

*laughter erupts*

[Ian @mrianzw]

Sad news that penalises non-Microsoft schools. @MicrosoftFlip was a great app that provided a safe way for students to do oral presentations, to collaborate and to be creative in an easy to access platform for teachers. Long live Flip!

[Flip @MicrosoftFlip]

The Flip Camera is moving to Teams for Education, we are retiring our web and mobile apps. Now, you can just click on Assignments inside Teams, and select video from the dropdown menu to send and receive video assignments with your students. Learn more on https://t.co/WLpxdbNo2M.

[Ian @mrianzw]

Important activity to do after a poor set of exam results — acknowledging that we all, me included, can improve and do better.

Honest feedback from the Year 12’s on what works (and doesn’t work) for them, and hopefully setting them up for a stronger end to the year.