October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month and this represents a special time for educators of students with Down syndrome and others with a range of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. More informed models of teaching mathematics must include rich, comparable educational ...
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Schools drop writing focus too early: researchers
Schools are dropping the focus on writing too soon, say academics. Writing for The Conversation, Australian Catholic University Professor of Educational Assessment and Literacy Claire Wyatt-Smith and senior research officer Christine Jennifer Jackson surveyed more than 4,000 primary and secondary school ...
More »Murdered French teacher a quiet hero: Macron
President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to a French history teacher beheaded by an Islamist radical as a "quiet hero" dedicated to instilling the democratic values of the French Republic in his pupils. Samuel Paty's teenage attacker had wanted to ...
More »Study finds excellence, not perfectionism, is key to high achievement, social and emotional wellbeing
As Year 12 students across Australia prepare for the culmination of their schooling, a proportion of over-achievers will be setting their expectations high and will likely be fearful about not reaching their perfectionist heights. The perfectionist syndrome led clinical PhD ...
More »‘Regrettable’ HSC exam bungle leaves class rattled and disappointed
Students at a Sydney high school are rattled and concerned after their HSC English exam supervisor wrote the incorrect finishing time for the exam on the whiteboard. While the exam was scheduled to run from 9.50am to 11.30am on Tuesday, ...
More »Class of 2020 starting COVID-safe HSC
About 70,000 students from the NSW HSC class of 2020 are starting their written exams, with COVID-safe protocols in place. Safeguards including temperature tests and spaced seating have been introduced to protect students who sit their first English test on ...
More »Study maps hottest parts of the school
Australian researchers have mapped the hottest and coolest parts of outdoor school zones and found some reached up to 70 degrees Celsius. During summer last year, researchers collected more than 100,000 heat data points within a public school in western ...
More »New handbook helps to counter an age of fake news: podcast
EducationReview · New handbook helps to counter an age of fake news | Eryn Newman The phenomenon of "fake news"’ has been around since journalism first began, but the term itself and the power it can now yield has been ...
More »Study finds ‘excessive demands’ on beginning teachers produce negative, long-lasting impacts on classroom management
A world-first longitudinal study tracking teachers’ classroom management skills from the time they graduate until up to 15 years in the teaching profession has found that excessive demands must be reduced at the beginning of their careers. Titled ‘Teachers’ classroom ...
More »What to do about disrespect and aggression against teachers
Australian parents have, in 2020, had a peek behind the curtain of what it means to be a teacher. Sure, it hasn’t been real. I mean, any parent who contends that they’ve been “doing” remote learning themselves is having a little ...
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