Category: Secondary
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Celebrating Teachers
Oxford staff are sharing their stories about the teachers who inspired them when they were at school; teachers who were special to them, who encouraged them, dared them to dream, to think differently. Here are their stories: “When I was in Primary school, I couldn’t draw, sketch, paint or sculpt to save my life. I remember once failing…
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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…
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Oxford resources shortlisted in Educational Publishing Australia Awards
Oxford resources have been resources shortlisted in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary categories of the Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). Organised by the Australian Publishers Association and sponsored by the Copyright Agency, the prestigious EPAAs recognise excellence and innovation within the educational publishing industry. We congratulate all who were involved in publishing the shortlisted resources across the…
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Maths for Everyone: Why there is no such thing as a ‘maths person’
‘I’m not a maths person.’ That’s a statement you’ve all probably heard many times. However, the skills that students learn in mathematics are among the most practical taught in school. Mathematics underpins the world we live in and it teaches our children valuable problem-solving skills. Mathematics provides us with a language to explain much of…
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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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The beginnings of Anzac Day
Excerpt from The War at Home by John Connor, Peter Stanley and Peter Yule ‘Anzac’ (soon transmuting from acronym to word) came to sum up the Australian desire to reflect on what the war had meant. What was the first Anzac Day? At least four explanations exist for the origins of the idea of Anzac,…
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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…