at the minute teaching

Hey! I'm Kath, a primary-trained teacher from NZ with a love of blog writing and creating resources! My teaching experience includes 3 years of teaching Year 2 (NZ), 1.5 years of teaching Year 7 (NZ), 1 year of teaching Year 1 (UK), and 1 year of teaching Year 7-11 PE (UK). I'm currently splitting my teaching time between 3 schools in NZ doing secondary school PE, Literacy Acceleration for Years 2-4 and supply teaching. I started creating and sharing teaching resources online over the numerous lockdowns in 2020-21 and discovered that it's something I'd like to stick at! My biggest projects have been creating a huge range of editable writing success criteria, fractions worksheets and more recently, travel-inspired classroom decor! During my extra downtime over the last couple of years, I did some deep diving into what is really important for keeping me going as a teacher; What motivates me; What makes me feel good about my job; What makes me feel like I'm making a positive difference. Our job is TOUGH. And I realised that these things below were crucial things that I just couldn't go without if I wanted to love and do my best at my job. So I decided that I wanted to do my best to help other teachers so that we could all: Be PURPOSEFUL teachers Who are IN CONTROL Feel INSPIRED And know we've DONE ENOUGH.

I think this sums me as a teacher up pretty well: Coming into my fourth year of teaching and I thought I'd finally toughened up enough to pull off the authoritative 'look' in front of a class. Faced with my new Year 7's, I tried to channel the old "Don't smile until Easter" persona. After a couple of days and some stern words to establish routines, expectations and all that, I thought I was doing pretty well. Turns out, that's not how I had come across at all. My colleague was chatting with a couple of students from my class about how they were settling in and one said "Yeah it's been good. I like my teacher but I can't tell if she's telling us off or not cause she's always smiling." ...oops!

2015 Senior Scholar Award in the Faculty of Education and Social Work

Bachelor of Education - BEd (Primary Specialisation)

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