By Jeff Styles
It has struck me over the past few years working with senior secondary school students that an ideal approach to guiding them through their academic year is to liken the student group to a sporting team that you are ‘coaching’ through to a successful season.
For the past two and a half years, I have served as the Study Centre Supervisor and Academic Tutor at MacKillop Senior College in Port Macquarie, New South Wales. Students go to the Study Centre during their free periods to catch up or get ahead with their work. My job has been to keep students on task and maintain a quiet, productive environment.
Jeff Styles is a recently graduated teacher, achieving a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of New England in New South Wales, Australia. For the past two and a half years, while engaged in studies to become a high school geography and history teacher, he has been employed as the Study Centre Supervisor and Academic Tutor at MacKillop Senior College in Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
