Category: Primary
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Oxford Australia launches search for the Children’s Word of the Year
Will Australian primary school students prove as politically aware as their UK counterparts? Oxford Australia has launched its search for the Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year. Primary school-aged children across Australia are invited to nominate their ‘Word of the Year’ and submit a short piece of free writing based on that word. The…
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Practical experience is crucial for improving teachers’ confidence
First published in EducationHQ By Janet Fellowes, co-author with Grace Oakley of Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education (OUP) and previous Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University. A new edition of Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education is due to publish in September 2019. Classroom and student management is extremely important to student…
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Girls are dropping out of sport – what can educators, parents and communities do about it?
Article first appeared in Education Review. By Teaching Health and Physical Education author Natalie McMaster There are a myriad of reasons why girls in Australia aged 15-17 may choose to quit sport. They may find that the values of sport participation are not meaningful for them. They may lack the necessary knowledge and skills to…
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A tale of three schools
By Anthony Welch There has been much interest in the recent Schools that Excel series in The Age. The series aimed to reveal to readers which Victorian schools had improved the most in the past decade, according to factors including the number of students who progressed to university, or the median VCE scores. All of…
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Practical ways teachers and parents can work together to improve reading
There is much evidence of the positive impact of parent and carer support on a child’s early school experience. This is particularly so for their literacy development in Reception/Primary 1 and beyond; the benefits of parents reading aloud to children, sharing books with them from an early age and, importantly, of continuing to read to…
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Maths teachers can help students avoid financial pitfalls in the future
First published by EducationHQ. Following recent scrutiny of the banking sector by a Royal Commission, there have been calls to end the practice of allowing a financial institution, such as the Commonwealth Bank, to “invite itself” into primary school classrooms through schemes such as the “Dollarmites” children’s banking project. The bad press directed at the big…
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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…
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Engagement with Project X: Comprehension Express has armed struggling readers with the language and skills to address comprehension challenges.
Case study by Sophie Rasic using feedback from Literacy Coordinator Amy Sneddon and teachers Casey Seymour & Emma de Klerk, Lalor Gardens Primary School, Melbourne Age group Foundation–Year 6 Students on roll 403 School context Lalor is a lower socioeconomic area in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne. The school has a high primary school-leavers rate, with an average…