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Category: Teaching

  • This is my test blog

    This is my test blog

    This is all of my text for the really cool blog post I am writing. Here is some more sweet text about Pandas. Did you know pandas are awesome as hell? Panda’s are awesome as hell. This is a quote. This is a pull quote by Bryn

  • How to prepare pre-service teachers to be complex problem solvers

    How to prepare pre-service teachers to be complex problem solvers

    Problem-solving is central to the daily work of teachers. In education, people work to improve the lives of students, often very young children, who are on steep learning curves, academically, socially, emotionally, physically and morally. Often, a quick chat with a student can solve a problem, but sometimes further steps need to be taken when…

  • Learning to Teach – How the third edition came about

    Written by Gloria Latham, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney When we wrote the 3rd edition of Learning to Teach the world had changed dramatically from the world we left in 2011, the date of our last edition. In 2011, all the authors lived in the same city and worked at the same university. Our…

  • Q & A: Maths teacher Christine Utber

    Q & A: Maths teacher Christine Utber

    Christine Utber reflects on the difference a maths teacher made to her career, dispels the myth of the ‘maths person’, and discusses why she hates when students say “I don’t get it!” Where do you work and what is your role? I am a mathematics teacher at an all girls independent school on the Mornington…

  • Factors to consider in creating a play-based program for early learners

    Factors to consider in creating a play-based program for early learners

    Article first published in Education Review. By Learning Through Play (OUP) author and Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Care at the University of Notre Dame Australia,  Christine Robinson The campaign by the Early Learning and Care Council of Australia to encourage state and federal governments to fund two years of play-based learning for…

  • The new Oxford Reading for Comprehension series tackles emerging comprehension challenges

    The new Oxford Reading for Comprehension series tackles emerging comprehension challenges

    Oxford University Press (OUP) has introduced a brand new guided reading program, Oxford Reading for Comprehension, to help teachers address the comprehension challenge in Australian primary schools. The research-based series, created in Australia, combines a consistent, strategic approach to comprehension with creative and exciting content to ensure students remain engaged while they develop their comprehension…

  • How positive psychology can improve teachers’ well-being

    How positive psychology can improve teachers’ well-being

    Teacher well-being has been in the news recently, with Education Minister Dan Tehan saying teachers must be better trained to deal with the pressure of difficult classrooms and the physical and verbal abuse they experience. This month, the ABC reported that teachers and principals were under increasing pressure as a result of the anxiety epidemic…

  • Literacy and numeracy are important, but there is far more to effective teaching

    Literacy and numeracy are important, but there is far more to effective teaching

    First published in Education Review. Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences in the Primary School author Ruth Reynolds, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Newcastle Graduates from accredited teaching courses will be required to pass literacy and numeracy tests before they can enter the profession this year. Potential teachers will have three attempts at passing…