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A math teacher’s plea: Let’s keep pi irrational
The challenge for the mathematics teaching community will be about increasingly creating and sustaining a healthy balance in our classrooms…
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OK computer: to prevent students cheating with AI text-generators, we should bring them into the classroom
Long-form writing, especially essay writing, remains one of the best ways to teach critical analysis.
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You won’t believe where these school tours are taking students
School tours are more exciting than ever, featuring Broadway workshops, Stella Adler acting workshops, international sports competitions, lunches with NASA…
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Being compassionate to students who reject it is hard, says Adam Voigt
There are students about to arrive into your care in 2020 who are going to test you.
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Outdoor learning builds bonds with students
“Seventy-one percent of secondary students felt that,” according to a study, “their teachers had a better understanding of how they…
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The Knox School builds and pilots first lightboard
The great advantage of this is that teachers can be recorded as they teach; the recorded image is captured together…
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Poorer NSW students study subjects less likely to get them into uni
More students from advantaged backgrounds study subjects that will get them a higher ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank) in New…
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A familiar place among the chaos: how schools can help students cope after the bushfires
Even students not directly affected by the fires might be distressed by images they have seen or stories they have…
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Real life, real stakes, real learning
With the creeping focus on real-world context, LEOTC has never been so explorative, engaging or exciting.
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Teachers, get out more!
Place-based learning is out-of-classroom learning without the seven-hour bus journey and inevitable front seat vomiter.
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