•  On Sep, 08, 2023
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Autism and Schools Autism and Schools concern parents and teachers and how children with a Level 1 diagnosis are taught. While the DSM-V removed Asperger’s Syndrome as a separate diagnosis, it includes it on the Autism Spectrum. It replaces Asperger’s with the name, Level 1 Autism, but the diagnostic descriptors are the same. Link on […]

•  On Sep, 06, 2023
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Vision Impaired Children – Lessons  Our lesson packs may be very suitable for vision impaired children. Materials are in Calabri 16pt up to about Grade 5 or 6. For higher grades they are written in 14pt. In some packs the written tasks section may be in 14pt. This is to save space and reduce the […]

•  On May, 17, 2023
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Results of PIRLS 2021 show student achievement in reading is holding steady.

•  On Apr, 14, 2023
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Some Children Can’t Write What affects people’s ability to write? This question includes “what affects children’s ability to write?” May be ADHD Developmental Language Disorder (DLD); or Aspergers (first level of autism). Learning difficulties can mean Some Children Can’t Write. In this post, the theme is teachers may be able to do better. More teaching. More […]

•  On Apr, 13, 2023
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Workforce Crisis One in five workers “lack adequate literacy skills” so said Greg Jericho from the Centre for Future Work, 13 April 2023 on ABC News radio.  If you can’t write properly or read well enough, take heart.  Help your child and help yourself at the same time with the lesson packs on www.tutoringprimary.au. The […]

•  On Jan, 20, 2023
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Closing the Gap Aboriginal children in remote parts of Australia are well below the national standards in education. Despite the objectives of “closing the gap” between First Peoples and the greater part of the Australian population over many years, we are failing. Can I say it in a kind way? Can we face the facts […]

•  On Jan, 08, 2023
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Teacher Shortage 2023 Teacher Shortage 2023 is a problem that has been brewing for many years. Increased student numbers; heavier teacher workloads; more administration and form-filling! The Education Departments around Australia heard but did nothing. There were lots of stats available to them about teachers’ sick leave, burnout, stress levels and resignations. Governments are good […]

•  On Dec, 18, 2022
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NAPLAN Results 2022 NAPLAN Results 2022 confirm the trend: for ten years literacy results indicate students are not moving forward between Grade 4 and Year 7. Australian schools are good at teaching early literacy. By Year 4, students can >decode the text on the page; >answer questions relating to the chronology of stories; >find explicit […]

•  On Dec, 10, 2022
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Enquiry Learning Lacks Research Emeritus Professor John Sweller of UNSW questions the continuing extension of enquiry-based learning in the face of recent research findings about how humans learn. In https://www.cis.org.au/publication/why-inquiry-based-approaches-harm-students-learning/  Primary knowledge is what we humans learn through personal investigation. Secondary knowledge is what is passed down to us from earlier generations and through aeons […]

•  On Dec, 07, 2022
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Teaching Grammar is Back  Teaching Grammar is Back and word has got around! On 22 September 2020 the Sydney Morning Herald published an article titled, “How does grammar help writing?” Changes in the New South Wales school curriculum are afoot to introduce the teaching of English grammar in explicit ways. It has always been there […]