A mercurial collation of teacher resources by Thomas Byars

Great Tool for Tagging and Visually Appealing Infographics

thomasbyars — 2024-03-25 04:39:46 UTC

Art with Desmos

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 00:18:05 UTC

A potential activity/assessment task for Mathematical Methods, but i could see you use some of the videos if introducing students to Desmos.

Sometimes Cool

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 00:21:42 UTC

Free to sign up and resources for P-10. Can filter by year level and subject which helps with targeting inspiration.

First Nations Lesson Ideas

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 00:27:28 UTC

Came across this website whilst completing our indigenous unit and was a great resource for both lesson ideas P-10 but also had some great relevance for learning about Australia's shared history.

Arc (The New Fuse)

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 00:32:52 UTC

I came across this when we had to complete our junior pedagogy unit plans and was struggling with a couple of ideas for particular lessons. Not everything is useful but it is curriculum aligned for P-10.

Record Yourself

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 00:42:36 UTC

This was suggested to me by one of my supervising teachers. Maybe not as easy as it once was with the phone away for the day, but you could at least record audio, which may help you identify what you said vs what you intended to say to improve practice. You could also record yourself as a "practice run" which I found Flip a good platform for this. If you are happy with what you recorded you could add these as topics for students to respond to and answer/pose questions they might have. I have included two examples of teachers that have done this for Maths.

Wootube - Passionate Maths Teacher

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 00:46:56 UTC

I enjoy watching Eddie's material, he has calm and supportive tone to his instructional method and quite often i learn little tips and tricks to incorporate into my lessons. Yes, the classroom can appear to be quite staged in terms of students behaviours, but is it because of his passion and engagement? A great example of how recording yourself may help and benefit others greatly.

Joel Speranza

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 00:51:48 UTC

Another prime example of recording your teaching practice. Joel Speranza started on Youtube but has now created his own website. What I like about Joel's content is you can locate what you are looking for much more easily than Wootube and you could recommend it for your students if you don't want to record your own videos.

Flip - Supplement Your Classroom

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 01:03:08 UTC

If you can get permission and support from your school and parents, I see this as a powerful tool for potentially flipping classrooms, assigning challenge activities (homework) and assisting students who might miss lessons.

Brain Breaks - Berry Street Education

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 01:07:09 UTC

This is a great library of brain break activities from Berry Street Education. Don't underestimate the power of a break.

Blooket - Gamification

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 01:23:25 UTC

I got to see blooket in action at my placement school and I think it gets a bit better engagement than Kahoot!!!. Its a bit more gamified than Kahoot and it is set a timer and students progress at their own pace to compete with peers from a pool of questions. Highly recommend trying it.

Kahoot

thomasbyars — 2024-04-28 02:15:16 UTC

Here's a list quizzes I have created:

Year 7 - Perimeter and Area

Cairns Trivia (beware the final question about school, you'll need to edit)

Year 7 - Review Angle Relations

Year 7 - Triangles and Quadrilateral Review

Year 9 - Probability Recap

Year 8 - Linear Relations and Graphs

Educating for Financial Risks

thomasbyars — 2024-04-29 02:48:43 UTC

I couldn't access clickview resource through Arc website, so i located another resource for educating students about potential scams and impacts. There's also a range of other interactive medias relating to economics and business that may come of use and they are all free.

QCAA Senior Assessment Samples

thomasbyars — 2024-04-30 00:38:25 UTC

Recently started tutoring at a secondary school after school for boarders and had to start working with students on their IA's. Like most of us we probably haven't had much exposure to them, nor did we complete such structured assessments throughout our high school. Hopefully we all get stepped through this by more experienced teachers when we start our teaching positions. I've found them helpful for Maths and Business, since Maths IA's are more about writing and literacy than the math.