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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

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…

4 min readOct 14, 2023

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

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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

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…

7 min readSep 1, 2023

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

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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

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…

1 min readApr 20, 2023

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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

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…

3 min readAug 13, 2022

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Teacher shortage? Meh!

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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

My drive to teach

A pedagogy-free beginning

22 min readJan 22, 2022

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My drive to teach

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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

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?

11 min readJan 7, 2022

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How to kickstart your tech-edged freelance writing career

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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

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.

5 min readNov 21, 2021

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

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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

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…

19 min readNov 12, 2021

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

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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

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…

6 min readOct 9, 2021

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Can a methodology take a life of its own?

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Margaret Paton, Aussie-based education writer

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

15 min readMay 31, 2021

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Are out-of-field teachers just hole fillers?

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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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