I was revisiting my own teaching philosophy earlier today and began to wonder what other educators thought was important in guiding their own practice. I came across an article that asked some pertinent questions and helped me to clarify the validity of my own philosophy.

After reading Bill Jefferson’s post on Tribes I got quite a response from Australian Tribes educators (just see the comments section in Bill’s post!) One of the most respected Tribes Trainers in Australia, Coleen Davidge has kindly submitted a guest post on the subject of Tribes TLC to flesh out what was started by [...]

A school support assistant (or Teacher’s Assistant; in Australia they have several names depending on the State you live in) is someone who supports a teacher in every way possible making many of his/her tasks easier to accomplish.

It is a question I am asked sometimes, and for me there are two defining factors in my career as an educator. The first is how I actually got into teaching and the second is why I stay in teaching.

Talking with colleagues last week and we started to discuss what we see in each other that makes us good teachers. This got me thinking, and late last night (or was it early this morning?) I came up with this list. It is a list of the traits I have seen in great [...]

The definition of “teacher” according to Dictionary.com is “a person who teaches or instructs” and the definition of “facilitator” is “a person or thing that facilitates”. In other words, a teacher is responsible for teaching knowledge to a person while a facilitator’s responsibility is to facilitate or aid a person’s own process of learning. We [...]

Here is a second acrostic poem written by Anggi, a student Teacher from Bandung, Indonesia. As you can see it is written about the Treasuring Education Conference.
T : There was a lot of excellent presenters
R : Really,,,really,,,really,,,interesting
E : Empowering people
A : Add my knowledge
S : Sharing experience in teaching and everything
U : Unforgettable moment
R [...]

You are probably wondering what this photo is doing on the Time2Shine Blog? Well I am teaching! Yeah, I really am, well, I am at least with my class in 2004 at Daly River in the Northern Territory of Australia. This was for a cultural day for the indigenous people of the region. [...]