Maree Timms

Maree Timms

During my 30 years of Secondary Science and Maths teaching, I have taught in a highly-multicultural school in Melbourne, where the newsletter went home in eight different languages; I worked at Outward Bound Ullswater in England; I also taught in Bursa, Turkey, before returning home to Australia (in a high school near Darwin, Humpty Doo - yes, this is a real town!). I then taught in a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhemland in the Northern Territory for 10 years. I have now moved back to my home town of Wangaratta, Victoria.

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Many schools struggle to get parent / community engagement right. The nature of teaching sees us thrown into a classroom with 20 or so students; when a bell goes, we move on to another class, and then to another. Our teaching is dictated by the bell. Unless collaborative time is factored into our busy days, we tend to work in isolation; sharing a few ideas as we pass by each other, or when we get a chance to meet at breaks over casual conversations. So if we find it difficult to find collaborative time with each other, how on earth can we find the time to get parents and the community engaged?

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