Aussie teachers are nailing grammar instruction: expert
Nov 13, 2024 · Long-time literacy educator Margaret McBride says our teachers are doing an exceptional job in working with the highly complex grammar model in the national curriculum – and her recent PhD research only confirms this.. Involving four schools and 35 teachers from vastly different contexts, McBride investigated the grammar pedagogy underway in classrooms, honing on teachers’ focus on clause ...
Win for WA teachers: ‘Significant’ deal for public education under …
Jul 10, 2024 · Following negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia (SSTUWA) and Principals’ Federation of Western Australia (PFWA), teachers and school leaders will receive a 12 per cent pay rise over three years and improvements to a range of conditions associated with leave, allowances and professional learning.
‘Genuine sense of respect’: NSW teachers give thumbs up to new …
Oct 29, 2024 · Granting teachers flexible work arrangements, three extra pupil-free days at the start of each term and a $1000 cost-of-living payment – if inflation rises to above 4.5 per cent – the agreement comes following months of negotiation with the State Government.
Prac placements for aspiring teachers set to improve with new ...
Nov 1, 2024 · New AITSL CEO Tim Bullard launched the Australian Professional Experience Guidelines at the Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE) annual conference in Melbourne.. AITSL say the guidelines will help to “clarify roles and responsibilities, improve consistency of quality, and reduce administrative burden” for teacher education providers, schools, early childhood settings and ...
‘There are no rules’: John Marsden’s message to English teachers
Nov 8, 2024 · Far beyond a niche hobby or idle facination, Marsden says that act of carefully observing birds around campus is a powerful means of teaching students to develop their own authentic writing voice – one that is brave enough to stray from formal language rules that can so often crush youngsters’ confidence in pursuing lively prose.
From World Class to World Leading: SA's public schools are on the …
Dec 3, 2024 · The new work builds on the unfinished business of the early 2000s, when SA embraced: Constructivist learning theory in its 2001 SACSA Curriculum framework when capabilities/ dispositions featured as a cross-curricula priority; Promoted greater agency for young people in schools and more professional trust in educators, which was drawn from the work of former SA educational leader Garth Boomer ...
‘Harmful and embarrassing’: The way HPE is taught needs to …
Aug 9, 2024 · For those children who are forced to display their physical vulnerabilities in front of their peers and teachers early on, the result is often disengagement and notes from home excusing their participation come high school, Dr John Williams flags.
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The latest news for the education industry. Leadership / Intruder alert: can school leaders lawfully ‘spy’ on teachers via social media? School leadership staff are reportedly sending teachers ‘friend’ requests on social media in a bid to spy on their online activities and capture screenshots to squirrel back up the ranks.
Cavalry’s here: experts engaged to strengthen Year 11 and 12 exams
Oct 21, 2024 · The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority is partnering with senior Monash University mathematics specialists in a first-of-its-kind partnership to strengthen the quality of VCE maths exams and the review processes.
Call for teachers to be protected like police and paramedics from ...
Sep 12, 2024 · Amid ongoing reports of extreme and frequent incidences of occupational violence in Queensland schools, the state’s teachers’ union is calling for teachers to be protected under the same legal code as other frontline workers, such as paramedics and police.