pedagogy

PISA results point to need for more teacher support

"If you believe that it is a true profession that requires incredible expertise then, of course, you provide support and…

4 years ago

How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher

It started as a New Year’s resolution driven by guilt and a touch of sibling rivalry – but by the…

4 years ago

Adam Voigt dissects ‘the new teacher’s job description’

Even if you’re new to this education caper, you can probably hark back to your own days as a student…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

5 years ago

Adam Voigt on teacher practice: explicit versus implicit

If your students are likely to provide answers like these, then my best guess is that you, like me for…

5 years ago

Say the right things: Using effective classroom communication

"I was under pressure, I was emotional," says Adam Voigt. "And in an emotional state, locating the right words from…

5 years ago

Principals, principles and decisions.

Encouraging students to turn their homework into paper mache swords for an end-of-year comp: good idea or problematic? Adam Voigt…

5 years ago

Language in, language out.

Adam Voigt: "What I think I got wrong is that this model is probably far more important for Classroom Practitioners…

5 years ago

What if Plato was wrong and music education doesn’t matter?

Claims that music boosts intelligence, emotional wellbeing and psychosocial development, have been researched, debated and oft-proven over the decades but…

5 years ago

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