Teacher education reform: Where will all the experts come from?
Share this post Dr Jennifer Buckingham, 20 July 2023 The problems with education in Australia are not new. When the first major Commonwealth government report
Share this post Dr Jennifer Buckingham, 20 July 2023 The problems with education in Australia are not new. When the first major Commonwealth government report
Share this post Dr Jennifer Buckingham, 23 June 2023 As greater consensus has been reached about how to teach children to decode and read words
Share this post In September, the Productivity Commission released an Interim Report from its Inquiry into the National School Reform Agreement (NSRA). The NSRA is
Share this post Well before the sparkling new Australian Curriculum 9.0 endorsed replacing predictable texts with decodable texts in early years classrooms, demand had begun to grow
Share this post When the draft of the revised Australian Curriculum was released for consultation last year, the response was swift and emphatic from hundreds
Share this post The Next Steps report prepared by the Quality Initial Teacher Education review panel was finally released last week after a three month
Share this post There are few things more disheartening in my work life than having to spend precious time unpicking and rebutting the destructive work
Share this post Is a lighthouse just a lighthouse? The contribution of background or content knowledge to reading comprehension is becoming better understood (see for
Share this post by Nicola Bell, Jennifer Buckingham, Kevin Wheldall, Robyn Wheldall, and Anna Desjardins* People sometimes raise the question of when the optimal time
Share this post The book Clarity: What matters most in learning, teaching, and leading (Sharratt, 2019) is on the desks of many principals around Australia
Share this post By Nicola Bell Research that informs our collective understanding of literacy development is not conducted within one field of science. This is
Share this post The problem with predictable text: How many beginning readers can read these words without the aid of repetition and picture clues? The
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