Month: September 2014
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Developing reading strategies
Developing a broad range of reading strategies, and understanding how they may be used, supports students to become independent and successful readers. Educators need to specifically teach students how to think and talk about texts, rather than just conveying information about texts or doing the reading and thinking for their students. Following are some great…
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The importance of debate in active learning and the development of critical thinking skills
Daniel Baldino, Head of the Politics and International Relations Discipline, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, discusses why the use of a debate style framework in undergraduate political textbooks is so important. The structure of Australian Foreign Policy: Controversies and Debates is based around a deliberate pedagogical design that aims to encourage critical thinking, reflective learning and…
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Interview with: Ana Cosma, winner of the 2014 ABDA Best Tertiary Education Designed Book Award
Ana recently won the ABDA Best Tertiary Education Designed Book Award with her design for Oxford’s Second Opinion, fifth edition so we thought we would ask her to tell us about how she developed this winning design and what her inspirations were. About Ana Ana Cosma is a freelance graphic designer with a love for…
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Deepening awareness and understanding of Indigenous culture in the classroom
Did you know Australia is celebrating Indigenous Literacy Day today? Indigenous Literacy Day aims to raise vital funds to put books and literacy resources into the hands of school students, babies, toddlers and mothers in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. Oxford University Press has published an Indigenous Literacy series Yarning Strong. The…
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Ask the Expert: Robyn Steward
Robyn is an experienced literacy education consultant. She has brought her expertise to Oxford Literacy Assess by creating rigorous levelling criteria for the assessment texts and conducting extensive classroom trialling of all 60 assessment texts. Prior to her role as a consultant for Oxford Literacy Assess, Robyn was a Regional Literacy Leader for the Victorian…
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Oxford is English Conference 2014: a re-cap
Amanda Louey, our Secondary Editorial Assistant, provides a re-cap of our ‘Oxford is English Conference’ which was held on Friday 22 August 2014 in Melbourne. Teachers travelled from all over Victoria to attend our ‘Oxford is English Conference 2014’ and we even had the opportunity to welcome some South Australian and Tasmanian teachers! As well as…
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Oxford Word of the Month: Soccer
soccer — verb: in Australian Rules, Rugby League, and Rugby Union: to kick (a ball) as in a game of soccer, esp. along the ground; to kick a ball without handling it. The word soccer as the name of the popular ball game derives from Assoc., the abbreviation for Association football, the formal name for…