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Where we’ve been in the year so far – and a quick visit with Tibetan students
Follow the link for this fascinating post: Innovating English language curriculum through translanguaging in Tibet: fostering plurilingual identity …
What we want to say right now to Sahlberg and Goldfeld
Schools are places for all kinds of success, including academic achievement. In their recent article, “If not now, …
If not now, then when is the right time to re-envisage what schools could be?
The cold fact is that despite continuous reforms and growing investments over the past two decades, educational performance – and especially equitable performance – of Australia’s schools isn’t improving. Indeed, in many ways it is getting worse. Consider these statistics. Since 2000 Australia’s PISA scores have dropped 33 – 24 points in maths, reading, and …
Could this one thing make students love school again?
School refusal has been labelled a “national trend” by the Senate education committee. Primary and secondary children are …
One powerful way to beat the trauma of school transition with joy and fun
On the Monday post lockdown, schools again reverberated with the sounds of all their kids in the playground. In this pandemic much has changed but perhaps none more than schools and the work of teachers. For many parents, teachers and students there will be justifiable anxiety about what students have missed out on. There will …
Playground duty really is quality time: how joyful learning happens outside the classroom
The Quality Time Action Plan is described by the department of education as an approach intended to reduce and simplify administrative processes for teachers and provide them with more time for “high value tasks”. It is here that I have a quibble with this document and its definition of playground duty or supervision at lunch …
Learning is not a race but politicians think it is. Now wellbeing is in peril.
Pasi Salhberg is right, we need to prioritise wellbeing during the endless lockdowns many of us are enduring. …