I’m often asked why I advocate so fiercely for restorative practices. After all, its detractors are many and they certainly seem a fervent lot too.   So, before I answer that question of why, I actually think it’s important to address ...

“This was great coaching?” they asked themselves incredulously. Even after coming to terms with this doubt and initial negative emotive and social ambivalence about Wooden, and his coaching methods, Gallimore and Tharp decided to keep on attending Wooden’s training sessions in ...

The teaching of fractions is often identified as the point in primary school instruction when the 'wheels tend to fall off’.  While there could be many reasons for this, the overuse of one preferred resource (e.g. circular discs) at the ...

Appropriately and logically, according to Coyle, Gallimore and Tharp began to question the education-based pedagogical resources, research and methodology they had been applying. In their attempt to try to discover what the problem was, they decided that “they would perform ...

It is important to know, and accept, that resilience is not a DNA imperative and resilience cannot be developed as readily if students (or anyone for that matter) only tend to engage in easy goals and only wish to continually ...

When children are at play, what are they doing? They are constantly testing themselves, testing others, they are competing and they are developing. When sport is taking place, what is the process? Sport is about tests and competition. When the ...

I am hoping that COVID brings about significant and, more importantly, relevant change to school curriculums, structures and operations. It's high time to scrap the Higher School Certificate (HSC) and explore other options for assessing student achievement. We can't keep ...

When students enter into learning – real learning as opposed to simply being given something to do – they can get lost in it much like I imagine an orchestra can be carried away by a musical composition.  Readers are ...

The scourge of coronavirus has placed an enormous strain on our educators and our education system. As a nation, we should have celebrated harder that teachers in all sectors were able to entirely re-imagine the learning experience for every single ...

The final part in this series on advancing handwriting, narrative writing and critical thinking with chalk will now introduce the reader to: Ineffective teaching practices that increase cognitive load This method contrasts with ineffective teaching practices, which tend to increase ...