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The Magic Language Line In Action

Here is a short video to show you how I start each of my classes. The kids line up on the ‘Magic Language Line’ we say a chant – Now we are listening to Chinese, speaking Chinese, writing Chinese, now we are reading Chinese, jump! and across they go to the Chinese speaking side of [...]

An Important Mission – Classroom Innovation

This is my video application for the Google Teacher Academy in Sydney this year. It had to go for no more than 1 minute and be on the topic of learning and motivation or classroom innovation. I chose the latter and sent some Google products on a mission…

So because of making this video I [...]

Year 12's First Impressions of Twitter.

Mobile post sent by jessmcculloch using Utterli.  Replies.  mp3

PLN to the Rescue on Behaviour Management

I put out this call to my Twitter network after a frustrating class this afternoon:

jessmcculloch would really appreciate some tactics for dealing with high level attention seeker, very disruptive, very low skills, hates everthing grade 5 about 4 hours ago from twhirl

and got these really helpful responses that I really really appreciate:

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