Welcome

Hi everyone,

My name is Tahnae Luke and im currently completing my double degree in Teaching (Secondary)/ Arts (English and Drama) at University of Newcastle. At this present time im in my final year on a 10 week internship. Im absolutely loving everyday of it and cannot wait to be fully qualified and teach everyday. 

As im half way through my internship, I've already been teaching 3/4 load for 5 weeks. I've had some amazing lessons thanks to my amazing students and others have asked what I've been doing with them so i thought i could write a blog so everyone can see. I know I'm only an intern and have so much more to learn but some of the classes i have taught have been used throughout the school with great success.

My philosophy of teaching comes done to making learning fun, so that students can find happiness and a life long passion for learning (I will post my philosopy of teaching at another time). 

As a bit of a background to my current classes so that the lessons make sense i have a Year 7 top class who have just completed a Persuasion Unit with me and are not onto a Film Unit with Harry Potter. I have a Year 9 class who I am working on basic literacy skills. They have just finished a Protest Song Unit and are starting a Craft of Writing Unit looking at Holes the novel. Year 10 have a Context/Novel Unit which we are doing Hunger Games for. Year 11 Standard are doing Module B- Close Study of texts looking at Gwen Harwood Poetry and Year 12 English Studies are doing a unit of film. 

Hopefully you enjoy my blog and find some useful resources or lesson ideas. The more ideas we have out there can only mean that teachers are looking at different and more exciting ways to approach teaching and learning.

:)