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Targeted Stage-based Learning Model that Fosters Growth for Individual Students

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Our integrated curriculum is planned to reflect the developmental stages of the children. By placing the focus on stage, not age, we are finding that children also make friends outside of their standard age-groups, develop tolerance, role modelling and cooperation. Read more

Digital Technology and Authentic Learning

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With digital technology being so prevalent in the daily lives of our learners, from Foundation through to Year 12, deciding how to integrate this technology with meaningful learning can, at times, be challenging.
   Identifying the points where and when integration of technology will have the most impact on learning objectives is key to its success. Vanessa Crouch, Digital Pedagogy Consultant at TeachTechGrow shares her approach. Read more

Ecoanxiety: A Pervasive Traumatic Experience Affecting Students

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For many young (and older for that matter) people around the world, our real-life reality is just that – a nightmare about our ecological destiny.
   But what can we do about this real-life nightmare? How can we ease our students’ anxiety about the world?
   Here is a ‘tip sheet’ on how to put our students at ease and put them more in control of their future.
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New Tech Solution to Help Concentration in Classroom Environment

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Classrooms are the default learning environment, while they can be vital and fun they can also be noisy and distracting for those with ADHD or on the Autism Spectrum.
   Developed by a team of technology and health experts, Voice Selector Study utilises leading advancements in tech to support focused listening. The technology cuts through background noise, honing in on the speaker and tuning out everything else. Read more

Motivational Mathematics

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Researchers’ and educators’ collective effort of motivating, engaging, attracting, and entertaining students so they continue to study mathematics has been ongoing, yet the issue of student dis/engagement in mathematics continues to challenge educators globally.
   To improve students’ long-term commitment to mathematics, Dr Laura Tuohilampi suggests paying attention to the quality of engagement. Read more

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Anti-Poverty Week to Educate on Disadvantage

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Anti-Poverty Week has developed resources and a student writing competition to help children develop empathy for those in poverty, to understand what drives poverty and inequality in Australia today and provide constructive solutions to end it.
   Anti-Poverty Week worked with the ACOSS and UNSW Poverty & Inequality Partnership and Cool Australia to develop a series of 10 teaching resources to build understanding. Read more

Australian Teen Mathematicians in the World’s Top Third

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Six of Australia’s top mathematics students performed well at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Norway, one of the world’s toughest.
   Australia ranked 29th out of the 104 countries that took part, and the students achieved five medals and an Honourable Mention.
   The six students from schools in NSW and Victoria competed against more than 570 of the best from across the world. Read more