by Ben | Aug 3, 2019 | Effective Learning, Teaching
Driving through the fog used to fill me with frustration. The traffic would slow to a crawl and I knew that it would add at least another 5 minutes to my trip. Since following the same road through Belair with my daughter, though, the experience has become completely...
by Ben | Oct 28, 2018 | News, Testing
Many of you will have received NAPLAN results for your child recently and you may have heard the suggestion that NAPLAN-style testing should be replaced with a ‘formative’ assessment process. If you’re wondering what this means, you’re not alone. Robert Starke summed...
by Ben | Sep 2, 2018 | Motivation, Organisation
It’s the first day of September and sure enough, the sun is shining. While the temperature is just in the high teens and if I’m honest I do still feel a twinge of jealousy at the 30 degree forecast where my parents live up in Cairns, I think wearing a t-shirt...
by Ben | Aug 2, 2018 | Parents, Self-Esteem
As a tutor, I see first hand that confidence plays a key in the success our children have, both socially and academically. In fact, instilling self-belief is absolutely necessary if we are to make any progress with students acquiring any literacy or numeracy...
by Ben | May 1, 2018 | IT and Education, Organisation
While most of us would agree that our kids spend too much time on their iPads, there are actually tons of applications out there that can be quite useful for students. If they can’t put it down anyway, why not put that device to some good use? ...
by Ben | Mar 2, 2018 | Effective Learning, Teaching
Mesh secrets revealed! From time to time I get asked why the tutoring we do at Mesh is so successful. While my usual response would be that we try to give each student what he/she needs as an individual, there are some key policies that we have in place across the...
by Ben | Feb 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was introducing one of my Primary students the other day to the idea of irony, when she asked me, “So how do we know if someone really means what they say or not?” Because most of us grow up in a consistent social environment that presents us with norms we...
by Ben | May 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Many of us find that our habits unconsciously change when the weather turns cold. If the sun is not shining we often find that energy levels drop and so too does our productivity. Stay active The middle of the school year is often where the most important concepts...
by Ben | Mar 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Are you continually amazed at how your toddler seems to intuitively know whether to swipe, tap or click their way to successfully navigate an app they set eyes on only a few seconds ago? Techopedia, the encyclopedia of all things technology-related, calls such...
by Ben | Jan 28, 2017 | Effective Learning, Motivation, Parents, Self-Esteem, Uncategorized
Waking up early, packing the bag, arriving at school on time and getting homework finished. It all starts again in less than a week! Surely there must be a better way than getting through it all than last year? There are plenty of sites that will help you ‘de-stress...
