EducationHQ, 1 Oct 2019. Educators have the knowledge and expertise to help build a ‘new narrative’ for Australian education. However, teachers may not be able to publicly discuss education policy and risk being fired if they criticise it. Ref: Prof Alan Reid, Changing Australian Education: How policy is taking us backwards and what can be done about it.
The Conversation, 23 Sept 2019. Regular silent reading, which is sustained reading of materials they select for pleasure, provides great value.
Australian College of Educators, Upcoming Event, Monday 28 October 2019. Speaker: Prof Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish author and educator, UNSW Professor of Educational Policy, and Deputy Director, Gonski Institute for Education. Book online.
EducationHQ, 30 Aug 2019. Dr Kristy Goodwin (an expert in technology, wellbeing and productivity) warns that, in our technology-saturated lives, it is the elusive art of paying attention that has become key to our mental wellbeing and success in life.
Newsroom, 26 Apr 2019. Denmark is one of the happiest countries in the world. Teaching empathy has been mandated since 1993. Empathy helps build relationships and prevent bullying. It promotes the growth of leaders, entrepreneurs and managers. Read the article here
Prof Angel Urbina-Garcia,The Conversation, 2 Sept 2019. Children are experiencing more mental health problems and behavioural disorders (such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism). Education systems could tackle this – if they set out to do so. By promoting learning over league tables, Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland) appear in the top ten happiest countries. Read the article here
Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post, 30 Aug 2019. The Finnish education system is one of the best in the world. It is a whole-child-centred, research-and-evidence based school system. Education is not managed like a business with measurement-based accountability and competition, and the system is not judged by literacy and numeracy test scores alone. Read the article here
Adam Voigt, The Age, 28 Aug 2019. NAPLAN is dead. It has been for years. Publishing the data creates an environment of competiton and fear across our education sector, instead of sharing. Read the article here
David Hornsby, 2017. This paper is available for download. It may be copied (without changes) and distributed freely. The proposed test is not compatible with the intentions of the Australian Curriculum: English, but we might ask why a test on one day of the year would be worthwhile. Assessment is a continuous process, not an event. Aust Curric & Yr 1 phonics test
ABC News, 26 Aug 2019. Aaustralia’s young high achievers are turning their backs on teaching. It’s not just a cultural problem – governments can and should do more to make teaching attractive. Read the article here
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