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Social media, multiple screens, mental health. How teachers in 2024 can navigate the new world of education and bring their best for the next generation of students.
Despite the country's continuing economic crisis, both pupils and teachers are determined to continue with schooling.
Victoria University (VU) has completely restructured the way it teaches students by adopting a ‘block model’ – here’s how it works
Dutch study finds students do not get better grades if they are taught by leading scholars
Teachers should be re-named learning designers because of their changing role in the 21st century, says education professor.
Despite the Federal Government’s teacher education reforms and the push for evidence-based teaching, less than 2% of ARC research funding is directed to educational research.
After stints in the federal government and as Rhode Island’s chief innovation officer, Richard Culatta is now chief executive of the International Society for Technology in Education. He wants the group to help ensure that technology isn’
By insisting on a lecture format, we skip over skills that students need to practice such as collaboration and critical thinking, writes Dale Schlundt.
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We spend time and energy revering celebrities and “influencers”, but rarely, if ever, teachers. Let’s perhaps reconsider where we direct our admiration and respect.
The Australian National University’s vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt told staff last week:: “We need our teachers to be more than just people who stand at the front of the lecture hall or before a video camera. We need them to connect with their students in richer ways. This might include fewer lectures, and those that we do deliver, will be memorable and sophisticated, utilising technology.”
Peter Tabichi from Kenya, who was named World's Best Teacher, shares what makes him stand out and what he hopes for teachers in Africa.
Teacher preparation programs continue to ignore the sound science behind how people become readers.
He said things would get worse unless the way maths is taught was changed radically. "My big thesis is that people hate maths because they don't know what maths is," Mr Woo said. "Growing up, I hated music because I was forced to play scales. I lasted 1½ years and and went, 'Thank god this torture is over' and then, when I was 17 years -old, I picked up an acoustic guitar because I wanted to play a song I heard on the radio and realised music is a joy. "Most people never transition in their understanding of mathematics, so they're still like seven-year-old me."
It's taken an eternity, but the econocrats have finally twigged that the big problem with the nation's education and training system isn't its high-cost to budgets, but its failure to provide enough of our youth with the skills they need to get and keep a decent job. When the Productivity Commission set out to find a "new policy model" that could "shift the dial" on productivity improvement, the penny dropped. It decided that "if we had to pick just one thing to improve ... it must be skills formation".
Via Kim Flintoff
Research looking at evidence-based teaching in higher education tends to be based more on anecdotes than on large, robust and peer-reviewed data.
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