Miss Art of Teaching

My laminator is starting to hate me by making weird noises when I feed it with more paper. Time to hit Aldi and get a new one for $17. Aldi's 'Back to School' sale is starting tomorrow and I am going to fight for goodies. I should probably set myself a budget so I don't overspend. It was too hot today to trek out. But I have been eyeing 'The Beach' event at Barangaroo. It is literally an enormous man made beach with 1.1 million recyclable polyethylene balls.  The event is part of the Sydney Festival, which runs until the 29th of January. This event is free before 9am and the last free entry ends at 3:30pm.  Today, I tried to do a bit of work by reading up materials in prep for my first Year 11 Visual Arts class. I am happy that I have the opportunity to teach a senior Art class this year. For the last couple of years I have only been teaching Year 7-10 Visual Arts and Photography subjects. I have experience teaching Year 7-11 TAS subjects but I have been wai...

I have spent today behind the computer again and crazily printing. I grabbed ink for my printer this morning, and I've actually ran out of ink AGAIN !!!! Probably time to invest in a better printer. Anyways.. I'm happy with my first purchase from 'The One Stop Teacher Shop' on Teachers Pay Teacher website. I paid $18.05 aud (around $12 US) for a 'Teacher Binder', which comes with instructions on how to create your own personalised planner. You can pay using Paypal or Credit card, and once you commit to the purchase, there is an option to download the zip file. It is only an electronic version, which means you have to print it at your own expense. All the resources can be edited which makes it quite nice to play around. I will probably use the fonts and layout to create my student worksheets (two birds one stone!) This means my investment, which I made late last year on a Kikki.K planner is not really working out. I decided upon the 'Teacher Binder...