Teacher’s Desk
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First, it’s not an instruction manual: 3 things education ministers need to know about the Australian Curriculum
Education ministers across the country will likely consider approving version 9.0 of the curriculum in early 2022. States and territories…
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More reasons to teach in the bush
Increased financial support for teachers taking up work in regional NSW will now be extended under a review of the…
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Op-Ed: Are all teachers secretly writers?
If you look up the biographies of authors, you will find that many are also teachers, or ex-teachers; Rachael Johns,…
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Schools are surveying students to improve teaching. But many teachers find the feedback too difficult to act on
It’s one thing to invest in and gather feedback, but without the ability to act on it, the feedback is…
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Leverage 7 learning zones to boost children’s conceptual understanding
The fear is that as we scale up the cognitive expectations, we drag children away from what they want to…
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Six Organising Concepts to Supercharge Children’s Thinking and Learning
If students work through and understand these modes, they will have more flexibility and technical know-how as they encounter new…
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How to get media ready after COVID+ case
Expert advice on how to cope with national media attention following a COVID transmission event at your school.
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8 tips to help exhausted teachers move to online teaching
From my experience working on both sides of the distance education (DE) fence – as a DE teacher at Australian…
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Mid-career barriers to teaching torn down
The reform will focus on four key features: removing barriers to entry to the profession, bringing people into the classroom…
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Free schools guide about inclusiveness and climate science is not ideological — it’s based on evidence
Topics such as “superdiversity” and “declaring a climate emergency” are only only a small selection of the 35 other topics...…
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