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25.01.2022 VicSRC has captured over 500 student voices in a report: "Learning from Remote Learning" and provided 6 recommendations based on the experiences of students. https://studentvoicehub.org.au/download/3331/
24.01.2022 While there's been little time for substantial research on remote learning during COVID-19, Grattan Institute school education fellow Julie Sonnemann said the most rigorous had found there was little difference in whether teaching is real time or pre-recorded and that what matters more is the actual teaching approach used.
22.01.2022 Talk to any teacher that serves a community where there is socio-economic disadvantage, and they will tell you not only of kids that didn’t have devices or internet or quiet study spaces, but also of some children who lost access to the only safe and consistent place they know.
22.01.2022 We look forward to seeing many Victorian teachers join this inspiring presentation by Valerie Hannon. Here is your chance to ask questions about The Future School and what you can do to enable your school to become one.
21.01.2022 Megan O'Connell, one of the co-authors of our Beyond ATAR paper, provides her overview of the Shergold Pathways Review.
21.01.2022 AITSL is exploring how teachers and leaders in schools across Australia can be supported to enhance their Indigenous cultural competency. It is exciting work but, to be truly effective, it requires your input. Be part of the change: bit.ly/2Fucv5d
20.01.2022 Rather than starting with the solution, students should first be taught to research and investigate the problem.
19.01.2022 On this International Day of Education, we say a huge thank you to all educators for the work you do to nurture the next generation of thinkers, inventors and creators is truly invaluable. Here's to you!
18.01.2022 How teachers can navigate the 'predictable states of concern'
17.01.2022 Are students ready to thrive in an interconnected world? The first PISA assessment of global competence provides some answers - OECD Education and Skills Today https://oecdedutoday.com/students-ready-thrive-interconnec/
15.01.2022 Infographic: Word choices during a pandemic Children aged 8-14 in Australia recently submitted a 100 word story responding to the prompt ‘A different world living in lockdown’ for a story-writing event. Their word choices were analysed and in this infographic, we see how their word choices compare to previous instalments of the event.
14.01.2022 As parents struggle to work with their children at home due to school closures, public recognition of the essential caretaking role schools play in society has skyrocketed. As young people struggle to learn from home, parents’ gratitude for teachers, their skills, and their invaluable role in student well-being, has risen. As communities struggle to take care of their vulnerable children and youth, decisionmakers are having to devise new mechanisms for delivering essential services from food to education to health care. https://www.brookings.edu//beyond-reopening-schools-how-e/
14.01.2022 To overcome the stress of this pandemic, educators must lead with relationships, routines and resilience. https://edsource.org//to-overcome-the-stress-of-thi/637163
13.01.2022 PISA insights on school, life and wellbeing 'A positive school climate is one of those things that is difficult to define and measure, but everyone recognises it when they see it. Students appreciate a school environment where bullying is unusual, where students do not feel awkward or out of place, and where establishing genuine and respectful relationships with teachers is the norm.' Andreas Schleicher explores PISA data on teacher support and enthusiasm, school climate, stu...dent satisfaction with life and parent participation. https://www.teachermagazine.com.au//school-life-student-li
13.01.2022 Is COVID-19 the catalyst to transform Australian education? Professor Jim Watterson with Prof Yong Zhao takes a look at the opportunities for change and reform. https://rms.isq.qld.edu.au//W/Catalyst_for_change_2020.pdf
13.01.2022 A systemic analysis of the impact of COVID-19 in Italy highlights four skills required to face our complex world; 1. Future literacy, 2. anticipation, 3. systems thinking and 4. strategic foresight are increasingly essential skills.
12.01.2022 Today is World Teachers' Day when we celebrate educators everywhere and all they do for our communities and societies, especially amid #COVID19.
11.01.2022 A review has said that a single VCE certificate would make it easier for students to get a range of skills, both academic and vocational.
11.01.2022 A study, titled: ‘Cultivating Creativity: A study of the Sydney Opera House’s Creative Leadership in Learning Program’ by the Australia Council for the Arts shows creative learning approaches help build confidence, improve academic engagement and prepare young people for future disruption and change.
09.01.2022 The New Metrics Project is a collaborative research venture between The University of Melbourne and selected forward-thinking schools to work in partnership to address the meta-problems faced by Australian schools today and in the future. This is an opportunity for innovative school leaders to join with academic experts and international trailblazers to reimagine and influence schooling in Australia to lead us away from the ‘grammar of schooling’ that continues to lock our ...schools into many of the distinctive features of the 20th Century version of education. Australian schooling is ready for a paradigm shift and the development of new metrics to assess, credential and measure student and school success. Young people must now be educated and assessed in new ways so they are prepared for a very different future. https://education.unimelb.edu.au/new-metrics-for-success
08.01.2022 Instead of beginning on the same starting line, students begin each school year widely spread along the running track. Despite this, they are all judged against the same finish line: the year-level curriculum expectations.’
06.01.2022 Now that the vast majority of schools and universities have established a solid online architecture for remote and flexible learning to continue, the focus is turning to what has been learned and, perhaps just as importantly, whether the education system can afford to return to the traditional model in a very new kind of world. A recent panel held by the AFR examined this in detail. Reinventing Education, part of the Reshaping Australia Dialogues event heard from several education leaders, including Professor Sanjay Sarma, Vice President for Open Learning at MIT, NSW Education Department Secretary, Mark Scott, and Professor Margaret Gardner, President and Vice-Chancellor of Monash University. https://www.theeducatoronline.com//reimagining-edu/273321
05.01.2022 Education is one such sphere of society that we are still trying to enhance with technology. As we have made progress, education and classroom learning have been slow to accept change, but it’s getting there. In fact, with the comparatively small amount of progress we’ve made, we are already asking the question will we even need physical classrooms in the future?
05.01.2022 Let's get them moving, moving
03.01.2022 Students can play an important part in co-decision making within a school that can impact not only their learning, but that of other learners also. In the Northern Territory, students have been leading change projects in their schools for the past four years.
03.01.2022 Each year in Australia, more than 900,000 Australian students report being victims of bullying. But while there is no shortage of efforts to tackle this important issue, these efforts can have varying degrees of success based on how they actually work. One report has identified two factors that are related to negative outcomes in anti-bullying strategies namely the severity of the reported emotional distress experienced by the bullied child and the bullying being perpetrated relatively frequently by groups rather than by individuals.
02.01.2022 From the USA but echoes sentiment here: [Schools, communities and parents] want to take the issues that students are concerned about and worried about, and social issues we’re seeing in the news feed, into the classroom for conversation,
01.01.2022 Is #ATAR necessary? The latest article from Geoff Masters makes the case for change at no cost to university selection, but with significant educational benefits.
01.01.2022 ATAR doesn't measure all the wonderful things that make you who you are https://amp-smh-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org//atar-doesn-t-me
