There would be little disagreement on the importance of drama and literacy, including broadening and deepening the vocabulary of young people. In the preface to Teaching effective vocabulary , the 2008 Chief Adviser on School Standards in the UK, Sue Hackman, compares having a good vocabulary to ‘an artist’s palette of colours’. Vocabulary is more than a … Read more
Remarkably, there are few accounts for viewing schools as educational (self-) publishers operating in the current highly disrupted publishing industry.
The project around the Trivia Night was based on investigating ‘faith’. We picked up from where the kids had left off the year before, looking at how things had changed through time. From there, we moved onto examining how ideas change the world.
From all reports in the media, school leaders are totally focused on their students’ well-being in the pandemic crisis. The initial shock has now morphed into staying safe and watching the wreckage globally. And as I live in Melbourne, stories circulating about frontline workers now have new urgency through Stage 4 restrictions. Though far less … Read more
The ACER’s Teacher Magazine can be relied on for in depth accessible information… always!
There’s this big disparity between people coming from Spain to see us and people down the road not even knowing we exist. If we passionate about changing the way things are taught then we need people to know what we’re doing.
The AITSL’s Spotlight report is not only good pedagogical advice. By every measure it’s fantastic. Here’s why.
I went to Thailand in a group made up of two lecturers from Monash University and three teachers, myself, a teacher from John Monash Science School and a teacher from Elwood Primary.
There’s no point in giving them ‘answers’. I think some people want that control which dispensing knowledge gives them. They just want to get to the end result.
Understanding the busyness of online communications may be key to effectively delivering remote learning.