Teaching
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Schools
Kids are crashing parent-teacher interviews. It’s destroying the whole point of the thing
There’s a place for feelgood moments and celebrating school achievements. But sometimes parents need to have frank talks with teachers without children in the room.
- by Rosie Beaumont
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Schools’ success with phonics teaching switch may take years to show
New research says schools have a greater chance of achieving positive results with new programs if they get support from parents and invest in teacher training.
- by Bridie Smith
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NSW teacher training rules overhauled as accreditation process scrapped
The shake-up has been welcomed by the teachers’ union, but slammed by critics who warn it will erode quality assurance and vital oversight of thousands of teaching courses.
- by Lucy Carroll
Where does your child sit? One-third of Victorian students need help
This year’s NAPLAN results show nearly 30 per cent of Victorian students are struggling with literacy and numeracy, and it hasn’t got better.
- by Noel Towell and Caroline Schelle
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Opinion
We’re out of tune with best practice, but the NSW music teacher crisis can be fixed
The work required to rescue music education could start immediately, and would cost the NSW taxpayer very little money.
- by James Humberstone
A dyslexia school wanted to open in Melbourne. Then it got stuck in 300 bits of red tape
A school for students with learning difficulties, including dyslexia, won’t open next year as planned due to Victoria’s “next -level extensive” requirements.
- by Bridie Smith
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Why most Victorian teachers want to quit the profession
A statewide survey found just three-in-10 educators envisage staying in the public school system until retirement, with 40 per cent already eyeing the exit.
- by Noel Towell and Angus Delaney
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Column 8
The puzzling ways of the early riser
And the enduring passion of the Australian Olympian.
Opinion
Primary school
A great leap forward for school children (as long as we don’t forget their teachers)
The overhaul of the NSW primary school syllabus should benefit 800,000 students, but we must teach their teachers how to implement it.
- by Jordana Hunter and Nick Parkinson
WA parents are flocking to get tutors for their kids. Why?
There’s something all these parents got a chance to witness firsthand in recent years, one industry veteran says.
- by Holly Thompson
‘Biggest change in decades’: New science, history syllabuses in NSW schools
A radical overhaul of the state’s school syllabuses marks a dramatic shift away from inquiry and student-led learning to a knowledge-rich curriculum.
- by Lucy Carroll
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