Australian primary schools are becoming increasingly reliant on commercial programs for teaching students. This means the content and the way students are being taught is outsourced to a third-party provider, who is not your child’s teacher. Pre-pandemic research, commissioned by the New South Wales Teachers Federation in 2017 showed 28% of the state’s public school teachers already […] … learn more→
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Chances are your child’s school uses commercial programs to support teaching: what parents should know
Academic success: should we believe in the gift for foreign languages?
Among the received ideas about languages, which some researchers like the Linguists Atterrees try to deconstruct by recalling that French is doing very well , we regularly find the idea that the French are bad at foreign languages. The counterpart of this received idea – partially supported by strong blows from international studies (PISA for example) whose relative value is regularly […] … learn more→
What are SEO courses? Everything you need to know
SEO courses, which are referred to as search engine optimization courses in full, are educational programs or training sessions designed to teach individuals or businesses about the principles and techniques of optimizing websites for search engines. SEO is the practice of improving a website’s visibility and ranking on search engine results pages to drive organic […] … learn more→
Factors that influence academic performance
The academic performance of primary school students is a topic of interest and concern for researchers, teachers and families alike. This stage can have a significant impact on the development of students, and can influence their educational trajectory in the long term. For this reason, it is essential to understand the variables that influence academic performance. Academic […] … learn more→
Understanding and treating particular behavior difficulties is more important than labeling them
We live in a society with an excessive tendency to diagnosis and psychological labeling . Putting labels facilitates communication between professionals, but it also entails a series of inconveniences for the person and the social context in which they operate. If we talk about children and adolescents, this situation is complicated, since they depend on the adults and […] … learn more→
Do young people make fun of spelling?
With the advent of the internet and smartphones, written communication has been enriched with informal expressions. To write to someone is no longer necessarily to adopt the codes of the letter. What is often called “SMS language” is enjoying a certain success, even if its use is far from being generalized, even in digital writing… These alternative uses […] … learn more→
How should we teach climate change in schools? It starts with ‘turbo charging’ teacher education
The case for action on climate change no longer needs to be laid out. We see, almost daily, disturbing images of bushfires, floods or a mass extinction crisis. But however widespread that sense of urgency may be, we are struggling as a nation to respond in a substantive, coordinated way. One thing is clear: these responses will […] … learn more→
Why math problems suck (and how to avoid it)
What is the first word that comes to mind if we hear “mathematics”? It is very likely that terms such as numbers, operations, calculus or algebra will appear; but if a term is usually in the imaginary of the citizenry in relation to mathematics, that is the “problem”. This intimate connection between mathematics and problems finds its […] … learn more→
“The other side of words”: Docimology
Science of examinations and competitions, docimology, of “dokimè” (test) and “logos” (science) finds its origin in the work on the validity of the notation systems of the French psychologist Henri Piéron. It was in 1922 that he proposed the concept and launched research around the results of the primary school certificate. These would be popularized by his […] … learn more→
20% of Australian students don’t finish high school: non-mainstream schools have a lot to teach us about helping kids stay
A significant proportion of young Australians still do not finish high school. According to data released by the Productivity Commission on Tuesday, about one in five students leave before they reach Year 12. In 2022, about 79% of students started Year 12, the lowest in the last ten years of data reported. The rate was higher for […] … learn more→
