My name is Sandra and I am a teacher…

In last month’s post I referred to my planned research project for Module One of my structured PhD programme, the first draft of which is due for peer review in a week’s time. Being a logical sort of person, I drafted my introduction and literature review, in the knowledge that both will need to be edited duringContinue reading “My name is Sandra and I am a teacher…”

And so it begins…

PathwaytoPhD is back from sabbatical – where did those four months go? In truth, it was a sabbatical from this blog and during this time I still wrote a little (for my local Tidy Towns group), I read a little more (advance reading for my PhD ahead) and did a bit of organisation thanks toContinue reading “And so it begins…”

It’s been a funny old week

It’s Thursday and normally my fortnightly blog post is published at this stage but as the post title says, it’s been a funny old week. Not funny in the ha-ha sense and this post aims to explain my thinking about where I’m at right now and where I’m going (in the direction of a PhDContinue reading “It’s been a funny old week”

Organising the chaos… hello Trello

In my newly created bullet journal I have a page dedicated to blog ideas for September. Regular readers will know that I currently only write two blogs per month but it’s a step in the direction of organisation and this post is about the first of those ideas, sharing how I’ve recently come to startContinue reading “Organising the chaos… hello Trello”

A sense of community – contribution to wellbeing

As the summer draws to a close, planning and preparation begins for a new academic year. In some respects it feels similar to coming into January and a new calendar year, and in a sense that’s exactly what this time of year is like for those of us involved in education, students and teachers alike.Continue reading “A sense of community – contribution to wellbeing”

Organising the chaos… bullet journalling

Monday was a holiday this week here in Ireland and it’s the day when I usually give some thought to what I might write in my blog scheduled to post every two weeks at the moment. I would like to have a pipeline of content to write about but it just hasn’t happened that wayContinue reading “Organising the chaos… bullet journalling”