Are Our Human Relationships Being Replaced by Screen Relationships?
For the past four weeks I have been the University Adviser to a number of students who are completing the Practicum Teaching Block as...
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One Size Fits All
It was the start of a school year and the new intake of Kindy students were arriving to have their pre-assessments done. Each child would...
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True Standards - True Teacher
Worldwide there is a growing shortage of teachers. The number of teachers leaving the profession was observed several years ago and the...
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What Inspires Us To Keep On Teaching ... for Decades!
Teaching is a unique and awesome profession, one that brings much joy and fulfilment to those who continue within it into their elder...
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The New School Year – is it really a ‘new beginning?’
The new school year… we all feel how hugely significant this is every year. We are flooded with media footage of the preparations for...
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The End of the School Year
Moments of mania or true reflection? It’s the end of the school year once again and I find I’m observing and witnessing what I’ve...
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Screens: Taking the Long View. . .
Many of us raised from the 1960’s through to the 1980’s will recall the tangible horror we felt the first time we read George Orwell’s...
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What is the Judicious Use of Screens in Schools?
Back in the 1990’s, I commented to my colleagues that I felt the need to place a cardboard box around my head when teaching so that my...
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Connection, Collaboration and Cooperation (The beauty of how the 3C’s work together.)
THE BEAUTY OF HOW THE ‘THREE C’S’ WORK As teachers, we are all familiar with the importance of using the strategies of collaboration,...
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Rewarding or Nurturing - Have We Got It All Wrong?
Have we ever stopped to consider the role and impact of rewards in education? How would you answer this question if asked to reply...
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Children's Art Work in Primary Schools - One Small Step
My colleagues and I recently made one small, yet significant, step against the flooding incoming tide of the imposition of grading...
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The Declining Standards of Literacy – What’s Really Happening?
Is the much-touted deterioration of literacy standards really exclusively attributable to teachers in schools? Declining literacy...
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Oral Language - Building Blocks to Our Natural Expression
Have you noticed the decline in oral language in young children as they start school? As teachers we have been observing this decline in...
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The Unseen Effects of Speaking Competitions in Primary Age School Children
We are no longer speaking to express, we are speaking to impress There is a widespread belief in society that it is good for us to be...
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The Teaching of Genres in Schools and a New Critical Literacy - Part 1
Around 30 years ago, the English curriculum underwent a significant pedagogical shift into the explicit teaching of genres, most notably...
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The Teaching of Genres in Schools and a New Critical Literacy - Part 2
Teaching the Language of Narrative Today Today the first step in teaching any genre in a school setting, including the genre of...
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The Art -ifice of Persuasion in Education and Society
Philosophic Ponderings on the Foundations of Persuasive Texts There is an almost ubiquitous belief and an accompanying, well circulated...
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Speech - The Art of Speaking
Speech – The Art of Speaking In our suite of articles on persuasive texts, we next move to consider the oral genres that, from an early...
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Healthy Debate... or De-base?
Are we teaching our children to debate or to de-base each other? Formalised debate has premium value in our society with the...
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Information Report Genre -Whose Science are We Representing?
The Genre of the Information Report ~ Whose Science are we Representing? The socially endorsed and ubiquitously circulated genre of...
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