Kerry & Paula welcome you to iSURF!
Kerry is an Assistant Principal & Paula is a Curriculum
Leader, Coach & currently teaching Year 5/6. We spend our days at two different regional primary schools
in Victoria, Australia.
Three ways to sum us up, professionally and in our spare
time…and why we have a Maths focus
Professional Kerry: curriculum juggler, Professional
Learning Team (PLT) support crew and brainteaser.
Kerry’s spare time: urban escapologist, passport stamper and
Rogainer (Google that!).
Professional Paula: team trailblazer and curriculum engineer.
Paula’s spare time: coffee drinker, traveller, blogger and
collector (shopaholic) of shoes and handbags!
We are educational enthusiasts with a passion for great curriculum
that engages, captivates and inspires. iSURF represents our Mathematical thinking in
relation to AusVELS and the National Curriculum, we hope you find it
thought-provoking as well as useful.
Dear Kerry and Paula,
ReplyDeleteOur names are Charlene and Mirella and we are two maths teachers from Perth.
We have recently started up a new business creating resources for parents to help their children with maths.
In our combined teaching experience in a variety of single sex and co-educational schools across Perth, we have often worked with students to help alleviate this test anxiety, and we’ve created a resource to help parents and students do just that.
Our aim is to aid parents in preparing their children for the new type of assessment when they start high school and to help their children develop the skills to cope better under pressure. The tests come complete with video solutions to help parents and children understand the work.
We believe that if children and parents work together in partnership and practise test preparation and test conditions at home from a young age, students then develop better resilience and better strategies for performing their best during assessments.
This resource is currently available for students in Year 6 through to Year 9. These papers might be useful for those students who have struggled to make the transition from primary to secondary school. Also, for younger students experiencing anxiety over studying in the senior school next year, these papers can be used to foster familiarity with assessments. We will have Year 10 tests available from the beginning of 2014.
We found your website really interesting and thought that families from both your online and school communities may be interested in our test resources. In particular parents of children starting high school next year who are looking to prepare their children for the changes.
Here is a link to our resources: http://educationequals.com/practice-mathematics-test-papers/
We also did some work with a clinical psychologist who contributed to an article we wrote which you may find useful.
http://educationequals.com/how-to-help-your-teenager-succeed-in-life/
Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any queries.
Best Regards,
Charlene Burnie and Mirella Trimboli
http://educationequals.com/contact/