Work at your own pace, in your own time!

This short self-paced learning course is an “Introduction to Classroom Management  – My Teaching Space”.

It would be useful for any teacher from Foundation Phase, Intermediate Phase, Senior Phase & FET Teachers, particularly those who are newly qualified teachers or those wanting a refresher in practical classroom management ideas.

In this course, we are going to explore:

• Myself as the teacher

• My students, I teach

• My planning and preparation

• The resources and equipment available to me

• The technology I use as the teacher

• The technology my learners may use

• The learning space, both physical and virtual.

Throughout this workshop, consider how these various aspects impact your teaching and learning.  

Have a question, need support, want to brainstorm ideas about your teaching, your studies or thinking ahead.

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Hourly costing applies.

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Arrange a 1:1 discussion with Dr. Karen

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As teachers, we work very hard, have many roles and often don’t think about ourselves. 

We focus on our learners and students, and our own families. 

I am inviting you, particularly the women, however any teachers are welcome, to explore ideas about your own self growth with me in a 2 hour session.

My own educational story is multi-pronged and an intricate journey of exploring self-growth and continual learning, I would love to share with you about my own learnings. And have you reflect on your own, and explore your future endeavours!

I look forward to engaging with you, join me on this journey!

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Book this session for your staff, as they consider their self-growth within the profession and their future in education.

Karen chats with various educationalists, specialists, edutech companies or academics about educational topics.

Explore the EduTech playlist to see what has been chatted about.

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This very short course is for teachers who are feeling swamped. Take time to reflect, think and find your own space.

Over the last few years, we have seen the pressure of change on teachers. From the tech integrator before the pandemic to the successful Covid teacher and now the teacher in the time of AI (artificial intelligence) growth.

The character of the teacher helps one to cope, and succeed in the changing classroom, such as curiosity, adaptability, critical thinking, collaboration, empathy, innovation, resilience and digital literacy, 

During the session I will share ideas about how the change in the technological world around schooling, could assist and empower many teachers, to incorporate learning activities that enable change. Ideas to help you succeed in a time of technological-educational change.

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This could be done as a self-paced course: here https://teachainspire.com/courses/the-character-of-a-teacher-in-a-time-of-technological-change/

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Or book the session as a  beginning or end of term motivation for your staff.

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A crowdsourced collection
Edited by Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Abegglen, Marianna Karatsiori & Antonio Martínez-Arboleda

I, Karen Walstra, was one of the contributors. 

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About this collection: Educators are currently filled with rollercoaster emotions and reactions.
There is a lot of excitement and fear in the air about the use of AI in education. A range of perspectives and positions are currently shared openly and widely in publications and panel discussions.
This collection captures where we are at this moment in time with our collective thinking about potential alternative uses and applications of AI that could make a real difference and potentially create new learning, development and opportunities for our students and educators, for all of us. The collection is based on an open invitation to all educators and
students to share ideas on how AI tools such as ChatGPT, DALL·E 2, and Midjourney, for example, could be used in inventive ways for learning,
teaching and scholarship. We are mindful of the importance of critical and ethical use of AI in
education settings and more generally.
Thank you for all the contributions from authors across 19 countries: Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy,
Ireland, Jordan, Liberia, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom and the US.
The collection is made available as an Open Educational Resource (OER) via the #creativeHE website, Zenodo and further platforms. As the

collection is made available under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA, anybody can use the collection as open data to further interrogate the use of AI in Education. Please share any resulting further outcomes with the editorial team and the wider community.

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Download this free resource - the pdf here: https://zenodo.org/records/8072950

Or get the published pdf and the story here: