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Category: Blog
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Science in Time-Short Classrooms, Post
Science in Time-Short Classrooms Simple Ways Science in Time-Short Classrooms has some ideas that are workable for busy teachers. It combines the science context with literacy lessons. Also, parents can follow these simple principles when teaching their own children in the home setting. 1 — A set reading piece on a science topic provides children…
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Grattan Institute Education Nonsense
Grattan Institute Education Nonsense Dr Jordana Hunter has a PhD — but not in Education. Hunter’s areas of study are in Social and Political Science, Law and Commerce. She is one of the authors of the Grattan Institute Education Guarantee Report released in February 2024. Anika Stobart, the co-author, has first degrees in law and…
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Autism and Schools, Post
Autism and Schools Autism and Schools concern parents and teachers! How children with a Level 1 diagnosis are taught is of special concern. 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…
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Vision Impaired Children – Lessons
Vision Impaired Children – Lessons Our lesson packs may be very suitable for vision impaired children. Link: Clear the Clutter, Post Lesson packs are in Arial typeface, 16pt up to Grade 5 or 6. Lesson packs are written in 14pt for higher grades. In some packs for Middle Primary School the written tasks section may be…
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PIRLS 2021 Results Steady, Post
Results of PIRLS 2021 show student achievement in reading is holding steady.
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Some Children Can’t Write, Post
Some Children Can’t Write Some Children Can’t Write but they can improve! Links: Upper Primary School, Page, Middle Primary School, Page , Early Primary School, Page, Early Secondary School, Page. These pages give you an overview of Tutoring Primary and many links to products. What affects people’s ability to write? This question includes “what affects children’s ability to…
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Workforce Crisis, Post
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. A link here to a more recent discussion of this: Grattan Institute Education Nonsense, (February 2024). If you can’t write properly or read well enough, take heart. Help your…
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Closing the Gap, Post
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. Further reading at this link: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/indigenous-australians/closing-the-school-completion-gap-for-indigenous-s/summary Can I say it in a kind way?…
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Teacher Shortage 2023, Post
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…
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NAPLAN Results 2022, Post
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…