Category: Academic
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Our favourite books of 2018
To celebrate Book Week 2018, here are our favourite books of 2018 … so far. Let us know yours! Joe Piantoni, Marketing Coordinator, Schools Room to Dream by David Lynch and Christine McKenna. I’m only about halfway through this book at the moment but it’s extremely interesting thus far. A hybrid biography of filmmaker David Lynch, with chapters…
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So you want to be a world-famous scientist?
Here are five tips based on success stories of the past but designed for ambitious young women of today In 1909, the Australian suffragist Muriel Matters hit headlines around the world when she flew over London in a dirigible, showering the crowds below her with thousands of campaign leaflets. Although British women were still not…
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English teacher and author reveals his top 5 books of all time
English teachers spend the day sharing their love of literature and helping students get the most out of texts. But what books are they influenced by? We asked one of the authors of English for Queensland , Lindsay Williams, for a list of his favourite books. Here they are, in no particular order: Mullumbimby by…
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Teaching systematic synthetic phonics is a ‘success for all’ approach
A Read, Write Inc. Case Study by Sophie Rasic from Mr Brendon Madden, Principal, Toowong State School, Queensland “Be prepared to see fast improvements” Age group: Prep–Year 6 | Students on roll: 284 School context: Toowong State School is a well-established Brisbane inner-city school, based in its current location since 1910. The suburb is predominately a residential area. The…
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Funding the public sector isn’t a cost, but an investment
We can only see the true value of the public sector when we start looking at government spending not as a cost, but as an investment, according to The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Professor Michael Mintrom. At the launch of his new book Public Policy: Investing for a Better World in Canberra,…
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The Land Is Our History
The Land Is Our History author Miranda Johnson was awarded the Australian Historical Association’s W K Hancock Prize, which recognises an Australian scholar who has published a first book in any field of history in 2014 or 2015. To coincide with NAIDOC Week, here is an excerpt: The late 1960s was a watershed moment for…
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Maths teachers will only achieve ‘light bulb’ moments if they have the confidence to take risks
By Peter Sullivan, author of Challenging Mathematical Tasks I have asked many teachers, ‘What gives you joy when you are teaching mathematics?’ It is very common for teachers to respond with the answer: ‘Light bulbs’. I presume they mean those delightful moments when students move from confusion to clarity, when they see the pathway to…
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What makes a literate nation?
An excerpt from Australian Literature for Young People by Rosemary Ross Johnston The arts – literature in all its forms, theatre and cinema, dance, music, drawing, painting and sculpture – both sustain and create literate nations. They are not an extra-curricular frill, but an integral part of communal and personal lives; they arm for the…