Episode 64 of the Toddcast the Teacher Podcast: Katrina Maskell
For the sixty-fourth episode of the Toddcast the Teacher Podcast, I had the wonderful opportunity of interviewing Katrina Maskell.
Katrina is into her ninth year of teaching having taught in both rural and metro Victoria, as well as teaching in London for three years. This year Katrina is the Learning Specialist at her school focusing on coaching and mentoring as well as Literacy.
Katrina discusses the following:
- Her teaching journey, why she became a teacher and her teacher role model/s.
- Greatest challenge and proudest moment as a teacher.
- Teaching in London.
-Difference between teaching in London to Australia.
- Her learning specialist role.
- Resources, books and strategies to implement an effective Literacy lesson.
- What an effective lesson looks like in her school.
- Her role mentoring and supporting teachers in her school.
- Main adjustments for students with English as a second language.
- Advice for graduates.
- Top 5 teaching ideas and strategies to assist teachers in the classroom.
- One teaching resource you can’t live without.
