I looked through the window of one of my Year 3 classrooms at my school to see Brayden. He was crying, frozen in a combination of anxiety and pure fear. It’s not what any principal wishes to see in their learning ...
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Teacher wellbeing tips for Term 4 and school holidays
Even the most resilient adults at the moment are operating from a lowered window of tolerance and lowered threshold to cope and manage. This might manifest in anger that quickly arises, extreme emotions washing over you, or the inability to ...
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Part 2 in this series on advancing handwriting, narrative writing and critical thinking with chalk will now introduce the reader to: Orthographic-integration In terms of developing skilled and efficient handwriting automaticity, and correlated creative narrative content, research undertaken by Suzanne ...
More »Phonics can pull Australia out of its reading rut, but parents need to play their part: Opinion
It’s hard not to be alarmed by the state of reading in Australia. Since 2000, our students have dropped from 4th to 17th place in the PISA survey of global reading results, and foreboding reports on the national state of ...
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Write, erase; write, erase; write, erase. Practise, practise, practise, achieve. Repeat. Here we have the universal imperative actions of gross and fine motor skills and the power of sequence learning, which leads to robust handwriting skill efficiencies developing, with associated ...
More »Kids who lie: How schools are raising young people addicted to avoiding blame
Practice makes perfect, or so they tell us. And so, it astounds and troubles me to my core that we continue to raise kids in homes and schools where the art of lying is something that’s practiced so heavily that our ...
More »A tailored approach to rural and remote school leaders’ professional development
Working with remote and rural leaders has become an absolute joy for the Eduinfluencers team. The beauty and sometimes harshness of the locations is definitely part of it, but even more so we are spurred on by what we hear ...
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With educational institutions now heavily reliant on information technology to deliver services for students, keeping core systems and data stores secure has never been more important. The challenge has been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic as delivery of many education ...
More »Students using Responsibility Theory and their ‘powerhouse’ to maximise learning and wellbeing
A Responsibility Theory® (RT) classroom uses optimal evidence-based teaching and learning strategies (see Purje, 2014, 2019). The teaching and learning experiences created ensure that the classroom environment is safe, secure, academically challenging, socially supportive and where all students are actively ...
More »Five reasons why science fiction writing is now a critical genre: Opinion
The science fiction writing genre has never been more critical for students to master in their pursuit of academic success. In fact, the increasingly relevant part that science fiction plays in our lives has been emphasised by the director of ...
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