Trevor Cobbold, Save Our Schools, 14 Feb 2021. This report shows that school funding in Australia is heavily biased against public schools.
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Dr Peter Bowers, 2021. Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) teachers grapheme-phoneme correspondences more explicitly than phonics does: An open letter to Jennifer Buckingham and the reading research community.
Sydney Morning Herald, 5 Jan 2021. Two decades ago, Australia was one of the leading education nations in the world. That was before market-based models of school choice, test-based accountability (eg. pre-NAPLAN) and gradual privatisation of public education. The OECD used to hold Australia as one of the best in class in education. But not any longer. And UNICEF has ranked Australia’s education among the most unequal in rich countries.
The Conversation, 17 Dec 2020. The authors (academics from Monash university) outline five evidence-based practices that dramatically reduce challenging student behaviour at school.
EducationHQ News, 3 Dec 2020. The role of the teacher librarian is changing, but is more important now than every before. Developing a love of reading is vital and so is the need for children to learn to effectively steer their way towards factual, reliable and safe content.
The PETAA website has some outstanding resources for teaching. I highly recommend the teaching and learning progression on sustainability, which spans from pre-school to Year 8. Click here Hayes, J. & Parkin, B. (2020). The language of climate change science: a teaching and learning progression. Newtown, NSW: PETAA.
PETAA (Primary English Teaching Association of Australia) publishes many excellent units of work. Check their website regularly. The Language of Climate Change Science: a preschool to Year 8 teaching and learning progression
Education Matters, Oct 2020. Australians have overwhelmingly supported teachers and their ability to inspire, encourage and provide kindness to students, especially during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Age, 31 April 2020. A $30m federal government direct instruction literacy program has failed to boost literacy and schools report a significant decline in attendance. Year 3 NAPLAN scores in school with the program declined by 23.43 points, compared with school without the program where results increased by 4.47 points. A House of Reps standing committee recommendation no further funding, but Minister Dan Tehan extended it.
Robert Slavin, 8 Oct 2020. Slavin is yet another critic of John Hattie’s meta-analyses. A short but important article with an analogy making it easy to understand.
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