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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

It shouldn’t be, but an Anglo surname is worth gold in Australia

If you can access an Anglo-Saxon surname as an Australian citizen, go for it! Sorry, Jenna Price (Attention Mrs Nobody, Sydney Morning…

Oct 14, 2023

It shouldn’t be, but an Anglo surname is worth gold in Australia

Oct 14, 2023

A CBD school on a quest to go off grid: An innovative digital twin STEM project

When a school community member at St Mary’s College in Adelaide offered to help set up a ‘digital twin’ of a new building pre-pandemic…

Sep 1, 2023

A CBD school on a quest to go off grid: An innovative digital twin STEM project

Sep 1, 2023

Retraining as a math teacher: Should you learn more content than pedagogy?

You might be curious about how much mathematics content you need to learn compared to pedagogy if you’re an out-of-field teacher and…

Apr 20, 2023

Retraining as a math teacher: Should you learn more content than pedagogy?

Apr 20, 2023

Teacher shortage? Meh!

Jo Lampert, La Trobe University’s Professor of Social Inclusion and Teacher Education, contested the claims of a teacher shortage with her…

Aug 13, 2022

Teacher shortage? Meh!

Aug 13, 2022

My drive to teach

A pedagogy-free beginning

Jan 22, 2022

My drive to teach

Jan 22, 2022

How to kickstart your tech-edged freelance writing career

Where do you start if you want to forge a career as a technical or technology writer?

Jan 7, 2022

How to kickstart your tech-edged freelance writing career

Jan 7, 2022

How to gain positive media coverage for your school’s STEM project

One school’s chicken coop and another school’s solar-powered recycled plastic benches with inbuilt phone-recharging stations.

Nov 21, 2021

How to gain positive media coverage for your school’s STEM project

Nov 21, 2021

Don’t assume out-of-field teachers are UNqualified — they could just be teaching across boundaries

My latest installment as I delve into the phenomenon of out-of-field teaching as part of my Graduate Research in Education Research at…

Nov 12, 2021

Don’t assume out-of-field teachers are UNqualified — they could just be teaching across boundaries

Nov 12, 2021

Can a methodology take a life of its own?

This was a war where not a drop of blood was shed, nor prisoner held, with no victor or vanquished. It has never earnt a mention in…

Oct 9, 2021

Can a methodology take a life of its own?

Oct 9, 2021

Are out-of-field teachers just hole fillers?

How beginning educators teaching high school mathematics out-of-field in regional Australia develop a professional identity

May 31, 2021

Are out-of-field teachers just hole fillers?

May 31, 2021

Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

PhD student at Deakin University, Australia, using netnography to explore out-of-field teaching. GradCert Ed Research MTeach|GradDip Comm Mgmt |BA Journalism.

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