The COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia forced families and teachers to rethink how children might learn, in new online contexts where the usual teacher/student and student/student relationships were disrupted by emergency remote learning and teaching.
What Should We Do Now for Light Sensitive Learners?
Teachers have an obligation to provide such adjustments, wrote former NSW Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli in a letter to the MP for Ballina in 2014.
Teachers have an obligation to provide such adjustments, wrote former NSW Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli in a letter to the MP for Ballina in 2014.
Arts Education: We Fail Our Students With So Many Tests
This includes the risk of depleting our capacities for original creative thinking, empathetic cross-cultural understanding, ethical reasoning and collaborative problem-solving.
This includes the risk of depleting our capacities for original creative thinking, empathetic cross-cultural understanding, ethical reasoning and collaborative problem-solving.
Inclusive Education: It’s Not Getting Better. What Should We Do Next?
Interpretations of inclusive education vary. In its purest form, inclusion means that all students are educated at their local school.
Interpretations of inclusive education vary. In its purest form, inclusion means that all students are educated at their local school.
Here Are Five Ways the Government Could Demolish Barriers to Early Learning
The Government will need to consider the PC’s recommendations carefully and it could also heed the advice of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).
The Government will need to consider the PC’s recommendations carefully and it could also heed the advice of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).
Early Learning: Every Child Deserves Access Now. Here’s How We Can Make That Happen
This is where all children can attend three days a week, regardless of location, ethnicity, special educational needs, family income, or parent’s work or study schedules.
This is where all children can attend three days a week, regardless of location, ethnicity,
special educational needs, family income, or parent’s work or study schedules.
Cyberabuse: It’s Too Late – The Post Has Gone Viral Already
Doxing, which involves publicly revealing someone’s personal details without consent, is a growing concern in an era where personal information can be weaponised through digital platforms.
Doxing, which involves publicly revealing someone’s personal details without consent, is a growing concern in an era where personal information can be weaponised through digital platforms.
Is the Social Media Ban a Moral Panic?
Incidents of young men behaving badly in schools getting media attention exists alongside a long debate about whether children can be banned from using social media.
Incidents of young men behaving badly in schools getting media attention exists alongside a long debate about whether children can be banned from using social media.
The Right Time to Talk Is Now: Phonology Before Phonics
Teachers report that on entry to school, many young children lack the verbal skills of previous generations.
Teachers report that on entry to school, many young children lack the verbal skills of previous generations.
Starting School: What Is the Best Age for Children?
In Australia, it is a government requirement in every state for a child to be enrolled and attend school in the year they are turning six.
In Australia, it is a government requirement in every state for a child to be enrolled and attend school in the year they are turning six.
Student Engagement Data: What Does It Actually Mean?
There are, roughly, five different types of engagement data. They are time-on-task data, task completion data, participation data, technical data and biometric data.
There are, roughly, five different types of engagement data. They are time-on-task data, task completion data, participation data, technical data and biometric data.
Reading, Part Six: The Media Say We Have a Reading Crisis Now. Do We?
Recently the debates around the best ways to teach reading have been reignited. The media coverage has been fierce, and is often led by people who have little or no experience in mainstream classroom teaching of language or literacy.
Recently the debates around the best ways to teach reading have been reignited. The media coverage has been fierce, and is often led by people who have little or no experience in mainstream classroom teaching of language or literacy.
Reading, Part Five: Why Teachers Must Have More Than This Year’s Model of Literacy
The teacher who has access to multiple models and a range of possible pathways, can work flexibly. This caters for the diversity of students that is the reality of Australian classrooms in the current landscape.
The teacher who has access to multiple models and a range of possible pathways, can work flexibly. This caters for the diversity of students that is the reality of Australian classrooms in the current landscape.
Reading, Part Four: Is the Science of Reading Settled?
What do people mean when they talk about the science of reading?
What do people mean when they talk about the science of reading?
Reading, Part Three: What Is the Simple View?
The SVR presumes that, once printed matter is decoded, a reader can “apply to the text exactly the same mechanisms which he or she would bring to bear on its spoken equivalent”.
The SVR presumes that, once printed matter is decoded, a reader can “apply to the text exactly the same mechanisms which he or she would bring to bear on its spoken equivalent”.
Reading, Part Two: What Really Works for Readers and When?
We start this afternoon’s post with evidence-based instruction (EBI) and then move to a discussion of phonics/phonemic awareness.
We start this afternoon’s post with evidence-based instruction (EBI) and then move to a discussion of phonics/phonemic awareness.