Teaching
Counting controversy: IPA sticks to claim that maths curriculum is 3500 pages long
The think tank says Australia’s maths curriculum is too complicated and packed with ideology. The body that writes the curriculum doesn’t agree.
- Madeleine Heffernan and Kishor Napier-Raman
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‘Nothing in my degree to prepare me for that’: Why student teachers face big changes
Australian universities have until the end of the year to overhaul more than 280 teacher training courses.
- Lucy Carroll
Universities radically reform teaching degrees as deadline looms
Everything Leah Myers knew about her job was “flipped on its head” after sweeping reforms to teacher training followed a national review.
- Alex Crowe
WA students with ‘maths dyslexia’ fall through the cracks as crisis worsens
The low percentage of WA students excelling in maths means those with the learning disorder dyscalculia are falling through the cracks.
- Holly Thompson
How these schools are teaching their way out of a national maths crisis
Australia has been too slow to scrap “faddish, unproven” maths teaching methods, a new report says. These schools have found the secret to success.
- Lucy Carroll
WA high school teachers banned for sexualising female students
Court documents have revealed that in both cases, the men’s conduct was “so serious that it is likely to bring the teaching profession into disrepute”.
- Holly Thompson
Queensland investing less in state school students than every other state, except Victoria
Queensland students have been receiving thousands of dollars less in state government funding than their interstate counterparts, data reveals.
- Marissa Calligeros
Not allowed to teach, too valuable to lose: registration delays costing schools
Relief teachers have been called in to plug the gaps left in classrooms by new staff who have been hired but had their approval to teach stalled.
- Alex Crowe
Phonic boom: The new, faster test for checking youngsters’ reading skills
Six-year-olds across Victoria will have reading skills put to the test this year with a new phonics check, which will help catch struggling students sooner.
- Caroline Schelle
‘Not fit for purpose’ reading test scrapped for new phonics-based check
A mandatory reading ability test for Victoria’s prep and year 1 pupils that faced criticism over its suitability is being scrapped at the end of this school year.
- Caroline Schelle
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