Ideas from the Frontline

Rules – Why?

Posted on April 24, 2025April 24, 2025 by Jihye

One of the things I commonly see classroom teachers struggle with is managing behaviour, and I actually strongly believe that we often take the fundamentally wrong approach. We tend to default to a position of, “I am authority and I set rules, you must follow” and, if we are honest, we probably wouldn’t react positively…

Glossaries and Vocabulary Quizzes

Posted on March 1, 2025March 1, 2025 by Jihye

I know it might make me seem old fashioned, but I am championing the returning of the word bank and weekly vocabulary quiz. In Science, we learn as many new vocabulary words in school as we do when learning a foreign language. I think we all too easily forget that, as well as teaching scientific…