Today, I am speaking with Mark McMullin and we are going to chat about a brand new competition pitting schools against schools with the aim of growing fabulous young people who are gaining skills for this new world of renewable energy. But before we get to I, I would like to tell you about it after our chat. You see mark spends an awful amount of time working with these kids outside of school hours to extend them and help them grow and with the craziness of the world we live in, and the profession we have chosen, that fact gets lost. At the end of the conversation, after the recorder was turned off Mark was glowing and he said, “you know I am doing a good thing and making a difference. If you know someone, like Mark who is going over and above, let them know that they too are making a difference. We don’t often get told that.
Thank you, Mark, it was a privilege.
About the Bridge Building Podcast
“This is the place where we dissect and then discover the many ways ITD teachers all over this country are using their passion to create passionate students. We talk of measuring and manipulating a multitude of materials of design and divergent thought, of creation with our minds and with our hands. And most of all, we talk of growing great young people because of course that is what we do.”
So what does that mean other than I like to show off my alliteration skills? Since coming back to teaching a few years ago the thing that strikes me most, and frankly scared me most is how lonely this job is. How little we know about what is happening in our subject area. The classroom next door, a class in the next school, let alone the next town are a mystery to me. I know there are teachers out there doing incredible things and this (the podcast) is a way for me to find out and be inspired. I would like to invite you along to listen and learn, to be inspired by some of the sensational teachers I speak to on the “Bridge Building Podcast – from technology to the trades”
About the Podcast Host
Stephen Anderson is a Design Technology, Trade Training and accidental Science teacher at a small high school 2 hours North West of Brisbane.
Over To You
If you know someone who is doing something spectacular or just great fun in design and tech or in trade training, I would love to know about them.
Contact me through my email osaerial@gmail.com
Music by:
Viola Pink
My favourite busker from the Nanango markets.