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Relfective Journal
"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience"
- John Dewey
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10. The Reflective Practitioner
“The more reflective you are the more effective you are” – Hall and Simeral Over the last 2 years I have matured as a teacher, I am aware...
Katie Kenny


9. Remote learning
“If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustrations” – Lee S. Shuman Moving from in person to online teaching...
Katie Kenny


8. Whole School CPD day
“One you stop learning you start dying” – Albert Einstein Effective teachers are constantly learning. Teaching is lifelong process of...
Katie Kenny


7. Assessment for learning
“Assessment is today’s means of modifying tomorrow’s instruction” – Carol Ann Tomlinson Each Unit of Learning I deliver feature elements...
Katie Kenny


6. Development Education, re-imagining the curriculum
“Social justice education seeks to engage learners in a critical analysis of injustice by encouraging them to create works of art that...
Katie Kenny


5. Visual thinking strategies
"At the heart of art is learning to see" – Seth Goden In PME 1, I attended a CPD day on Visual Culture and Appreciation where we engaged...
Katie Kenny


4. Positive reinforcement in the classroom
“Positive reinforcement changes behaviour for the better, while criticism stabilises negative behaviours and blocks change” – Virginia H....
Katie Kenny


3. Constructivist learning theory, Bloom’s Taxonomy and Bruner’s Discovery Learning
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery" - Mark Van Doren Bloom’s Taxonomy and Bruner’s Discovery Learning are the...
Katie Kenny


2. Classroom environment and management in light of Covid-19 restrictions
"An effective teacher manages a classroom. An ineffective teacher disciplines a classroom" - Harry Wong Covid-19 is taken very seriously...
Katie Kenny


1. Transitioning into a new school environment
"Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change" – William Bridges Intense. Busy....
Katie Kenny
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