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Why do we only ever hear the corrupted versions of transparency and intimacy referred to in the current model of education?

Why do we only ever hear the corrupted versions of transparency and intimacy referred to in the current model of education?

Teachers are truly amazing. We clock and constantly read so many aspects of the children in our care. Not just what is known as ‘body...

Peer through the doors of any early childhood classroom and what do we truthfully observe when we watch the classroom day unfold. At a...

Worldwide there is a growing shortage of teachers. The number of teachers leaving the profession was observed several years ago and the...

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...

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...

THE BEAUTY OF HOW THE ‘THREE C’S’ WORK As teachers, we are all familiar with the importance of using the strategies of collaboration,...

Have we ever stopped to consider the role and impact of rewards in education? How would you answer this question if asked to reply...

My colleagues and I recently made one small, yet significant, step against the flooding incoming tide of the imposition of grading...

Is the much-touted deterioration of literacy standards really exclusively attributable to teachers in schools? Declining literacy...

Have you noticed the decline in oral language in young children as they start school? As teachers we have been observing this decline in...

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...

Around 30 years ago, the English curriculum underwent a significant pedagogical shift into the explicit teaching of genres, most notably...

Teaching the Language of Narrative Today Today the first step in teaching any genre in a school setting, including the genre of...

Philosophic Ponderings on the Foundations of Persuasive Texts There is an almost ubiquitous belief and an accompanying, well circulated...

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...

Are we teaching our children to debate or to de-base each other? Formalised debate has premium value in our society with the...

The final article in this suite of the array of persuasive genres taught in schools discusses the persuasive texts that fall under the...