Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Next month all year 3, 5 7, and 9 students in Australia embark on a series of National Tests over a 3 day period in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation and number.
Teachers have been encouraged to better prepare students for these tests by teaching the language of exams so ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Well, as reported in the Age Newspaper, it didn't take long for some directive to teachers to teach to the Naplan test. We all know you get some short term gain for 1 year and as the article points out what do we drop from the curriculum.
Is this a sign ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Over the past week newspapers all over Australia have featured articles and editorials on the Federal Governments new tax payer funded website "My School" which will allow parents [and others] to see how their schools rates against the national average in a series of tests [NAPLAN] and benchmarks [ i.e. ...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Thanks to Greg Carroll I came across this video where John Hattie makes a case around issues like accommodation, retention [repeating classes] or dumbing down learning surrounding National Standards. National Standards are due to be introduced in Australia next year. He concludes by making a plea to teachers to be change agents ...
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
This past fortnight I have talked about my schools performance on national tests to school council [NAPLAN] and now I've seen lots of editorials and responses in newspapers about Australia's performance in the recent international tests in maths and science for years 4 and 8 students called TIMMS.
Kevin Donnelly wrote in the ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Generation WE: The Movement Begins... from Generation We on Vimeo.
I saw this video tonight and thought it made some powerful statements about how the political landscape will change in America and what concerns will need real solutions from policy makers.
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