Hi everybody, I'm teaching Kindergarten (4-6 year olds) this year in a school in Sydney, Australia, and am about to start WBT methods with them. Last year I used WBT with my composite Kinder/Year 1 class and it went very well - the kids loved it!
This year's group is quite different and I have delayed starting till Term 2. I have a developmentally-delayed child in the class and it'll be interesting to see how he responds.
Thanks so much for all the free downloads and excellent website. By the way, I found out about WBT last year when my daughter came home from Uni (she was in her first year of study in Bachelor of Education) and told me about a lecture they'd been given about WBT, including watching You-Tube clips. I watched them too and was instantly inspired!

G'Day
I am using WBT at High school teaching Science in Canberra. I discovered it last year when researching management techniques for a dificult class (school) I am at a better school and started this term with WBT. most of the kids went well with it. I got lazy though and stopped doing it and the behaviour degraded. I will start again with ghusto next term.
I told a friend about it and she is using it in the CSIRO program that she teaches and loves it.
Jenni McInnes at Campbell High

Hi my name is Matthew. i am a pre service teacher in Australia studying at University of Wollongong in my Final year. i came across a video my friend posted on Facebook about whole Brain Teaching and i loved it. i have to do my intern-ship (6weeks of teaching by my self) with stage 1. i was contemplating on trying some of this.

is this too overambitious?

No! just do it- you'll see how much fun you and your students will have! This is amazing and so easy to learn so it is worthwhile to do it even for only six weeks ( the regular teacher may like it so much that she'll start doing it!)

Hi Mathew, great to see some fellow aussies on here looking at this technique! I too am a pre-service teacher, I'm studying a BTeach (postgrad) through CSU Distance and am doing my 2nd 25day prac after the Easter hols and will attempt to try WBT in the class. I don't think its overambitious to try this, why not you have nothing to lose and so much to gain. I'm currently a teachers aide in an Early Stage 1 class (K/1 compostite) and I think the kids would really benefit from this type of learning. You will probably have to make it age appropriate but that shouldn't be a problem.

I would really love to hear how you go with it, please keep in touch.


Kylie