Good news!

After a bit of a rollercoaster week I have been officially notified that I will be taking over from my colleague in the HSIE department, covering her maternity leave from Term 2 this year. This means I will get to teach 19 periods of Geography and History each week and spend the remainder of the time in the library doing work assigned to me by my boss there. It is very exciting and daunting at the same time. I just hope I can live up to the expectations of the Head of Department who worked so hard to get me into HSIE. This means that I have had to rearrange my practicum rather urgently and have applied (with the help of this colleague) to go to Randwick Girls High School hopefully teaching in the Social Sciences Deparment. Hopefully I will begin in the week starting on the 10th March.
Have begun reading articles for our first assignment for this unit which involves looking at a lesson one has prepared and taught and then re-evaluating it and re-planning it with the ideas of literacy in mind. I have added one online link to information about visual literacy. It is called Considering Visual Literacy when Designing Instruction by Michael D Sankey

Back to it.