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2020 (01) 3 February


ET News Digest
Your Weekly Education Newsletter
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Building your evidence engine: Five evidence-informed strategies for promoting rich conversations with young children
Acquisition of oral language development is one of the most remarkable and significant features of development across the early years. Strong oral language skills provide children with a platform to communicate effectively, and predict children’s success in formal classroom settings and life trajectories more broadly. Read more
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Is this the way to fill the teaching skills gap?
Teachers are hard to find, maths and science teachers more so, the reasons are many and taking the problem on requires some innovation around the way schools are staffed. Read more

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One timetable across two campuses increases Year 11 preferences received by 220 per cent
Denison College’s Bathurst High and Kelso High campuses are maximising opportunities and meeting the individual needs of students thanks to a timetabling partnership with Edval Education. Read more

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Praise encourages good student behaviour
Some positive reinforcement works far better than scolding criticism when it comes to boosting students’ performance and the more praise the better new research has found. Read more

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The next generation of murderous students is graduating this year
Can more be done to identify and re-socialise students who will potentially fall into the same trajectory as Martin Bryant? Read more

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Studying overseas made easier with Studee
Time spent in a university overseas underpins a global outlook but the process can be arcane, just how do you navigate an application to a uni that’s thousands of miles away? Well there's now a start up for that. Read more

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Dancing towards a better school community
Seven years into Hoppers Crossing Secondary College’s Story-Dance experience with Wakakirri there have been some noticeable changes at the school. Read more