Twists and Turns

It’s a beautiful late summer/early autumn morning and the sun keeps catching my screen as I write. Yes, the sun! As we all know, it makes an appearance at the start of any new school year once we have suffered rain through the “summer” holidays!  I know I have rather neglected this blog lately but there has been a lot happening.  I’ve come to the end of a great 6 month secondment at Microsoft – what a privilege it has been to work with such innovative, awe inspiring teachers (and such fun, too!).  You may have seen that I have actually been blog writing, albeit at www.blogs.msdn.com/teachers, during the secondment.  But things have been moving forward too – I’ve recently moved house and I’ve just started a new job, which takes me out of full-time classroom teaching (though I will still be regularly popping into classrooms and schools!). I’m really excited about my new role with TES resources and how the new team of subject leads will be developing over the next few months and this blog will continue to be my personal reflections about what I am finding interesting in teaching and learning.

I always feel the start of a new school year is a time for New Year’s resolutions – those of us in education are fortunate enough to have two times in the year when we are able to make resolutions! But resolutions are probably not as useful as that feeling that there is a blank piece of paper, a fresh start, a new story to be written. The excitement of a new school year is the unknown adventures to come, the thrill of the unexpected, the opportunity to make a difference. It’s that time of year when we need to listen lots, keep an open mind but have a clear vision of what we want to achieve. Sometimes its hard to make resolutions when we don’t know what is going to be round the next corner – and let’s face it, that is so often the case in teaching. But my own resolution will be to keep blogging here more regularly than over the last few months! What’s yours?