Blog - Stacey Lloyd

My Favourite Quotations: 1

Every now and then I come across quotations which attract my attention. Sometimes they make me smile, sometimes they inspire me, sometimes they challenge me, and sometimes they just make me feel warm and fuzzy. I thought I would post some of these quotations from[...]

Product Development

5 Reasons Why I Love Teaching Figurative Language

1. It’s all around us. I regularly hear the question, ‘Why do we need to learn this?’ For figurative language the answer is simple: Because it’s all around you. From popular song lyrics to political speeches, figurative language is prevalent. This makes te[...]

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Student Teaching Tips: 8 Things I Wish I Knew As A Student Teacher

Student teaching: an exciting, daunting, overwhelming and thrilling experience. It’s the first time you step back into the classroom on the other side of the desk and realize that the view is rather different from here. Student teaching wasn’t all that long ago[...]

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Inspired by Fizzy Fish: Memories of Great Teachers

Can you identify a particular teacher who shaped the person you are today? I can. Her name was Mrs Carter and she was simply wonderful. She wasn’t a big personality. She wasn’t a comedian or an entertainer. She didn’t have a commanding voice or a captiv[...]

Product Development

Using Music Videos in the Classroom

A few months ago I had a startling revelation. Before I explain this, a small disclaimer: When I say ‘music video’, I am not talking about those verging-on-pornographic spectacles of musicians exposing far too much skin and dancing in inappropriate ways, whi[...]

Poetry

Thread: A Poem About Teaching

by Stacey Lloyd I fumble through the kitchen drawer searching for something, not quite sure what, exactly. I come across a ball of thread, red in fact, and my mind wonders to the classroom... To a class who remind me of this thread and the dread I ge[...]

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Teaching Grade 9

I have a love-hate relationship with Grade 9. Walking into the classroom, you can almost smell the hormones in the air: the anxiety of teenagers trying to shake off primary school identities and find their ‘grown-up’ individuality; the adolescent angst; the[...]