Having good, well-trained teachers in their early lives benefits children enormously.
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Many people look down on foundation phase teachers, believing it requires little training or expertise. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
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The gap between boys and girls starts early and grows quickly.
Children who stutter may fly under the radar, appearing shy and quiet.
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Children who stutter may be less popular among classmates, appear shy and quiet, and often avoid speaking in class so that they don’t draw attention to their speech disorder.
Better levels of education and higher exam results found in the South of the country.
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Crunching the numbers on the latest school performance data.
The teacher’s task is to help your child be motivated.
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There are lots of ways teachers greatly influence children’s outcomes, including improving motivation and resilience.
Gifted children can benefit from being grouped together in specialist schools or classes.
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Failing to provide an appropriate education for students who are gifted increases the risk of mental health issues, boredom, frustration, and behavioural problems.
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Three reasons why the new progress measures may be a misleading indicator of school performance.
Phonics helps teach children how to merge separate sounds together to make it one word.
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Phonics instruction gives children letter-sound knowledge, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves.
Going circular on education.
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Our schooling system needs a rethink.
The prescriptivist stranglehold on grammar isn’t just restrictive, it’s often just plain wrong.
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Were your teachers right about when to use commas, and about not starting sentences with ‘and’?
Is school the most important part of education?
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We take a closer look at some of the common claims made this year to see if there is any truth to them.
A year of high expectations, yet little action.
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Gonski funding was scrapped and the vocational education sector got a new student loan system. Here’s what else happened in education this year…
On average year 3 girls perform higher than boys in reading, writing, grammar and punctuation, and spelling.
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The latest round of NAPLAN results show Australia’s school systems are not good at reducing the influence of a student’s background on their academic achievement.
Time is ticking on the nation’s mental health.
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Because educating young people about mental health and well-being is no simple task
60% of high school students in Singapore receive private tuition.
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The role of private tuition plays a part in the overall success of students in Singapore, with around 80% of primary-school children having at least three hours of private tuition a week.
What makes a good teacher? It’s not rocket science.
In the UK, the length of teacher training has not changed significantly in over 30 years, and yet the demands on teachers have increased massively.
Australia is one of only three countries with significantly decreased maths and science scores in the latest round of PISA.
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If we want excellence in our schools, we have to provide a system with the incentives, enablers and rewards for improvement built in.
Australia has slipped further down the international rankings in maths, science and reading.
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Rather than leaping to conclusions about a failing education system, we need to look at what the data tells us about student performance at a state level to help us make more informed decisions.
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Telling parents how to love their child undermines parental confidence.
Should we base education reforms solely on Australia’s international ranking?
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The furore over Australia’s international ranking in science, maths and English obscures what we should really be focusing on.