Learning
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Teacher's Desk
Old white men dominate school English booklists. It’s time more Australian schools taught Australian books
Concerns grow amid revelations Sydney University has withdrawn funding from its Chair of Australian Literature – the nation’s first.
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Reading is more than sounding out words and decoding. That’s why we use the whole language approach to teaching it
Good readers use a full repertoire of skills, each dependent on the other. And a whole language approach to teaching…
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Education
Why every child needs explicit phonics instruction to learn to read
40% of children manage to learn to read without explicit and systematic phonics instruction due to a confluence of biological…
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Education
Involving kids in making schools sustainable spreads the message beyond the classroom
Schools can engage students in being environmentally conscious by taking steps to become more sustainable themselves.
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TAFE cuts hurting vocational opportunities for students
“These figures show just how misguided the Morrison Government’s single-minded favouritism of profit-seeking private training providers over our public TAFE…
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Cyber security STEM learning program launches for high schools
Priming them for jobs in cyber security, students will be offered mentoring, work experience and practical training to improve their…
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Industry voices
Back to basics: students to focus on maths, English and science
The NSW school curriculum is set for its first major shakeup in over a generation, with a renewed focus on…
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Zoos have quantifiable learning benefits
A visit to the zoo in 2019 is not about getting up-close-and-personal with a wild animal, although children will certainly…
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Teacher's Desk
Gonski’s vision of ‘personalised learning’ will stifle creativity and lead to a generation of automatons
The recently developed and implemented Australian Curriculum should be rewritten so every learning area and general capability is written up…
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Adam Voigt: Let’s play chess, not poker
It wasn’t uncommon for my staff to attempt to fit another day's work during the evening. And I was guilty…
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