When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'
In the ideal classroom the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity – labs simulations projects.
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I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.