One school’s chicken coop and another school’s solar-powered recycled plastic benches with inbuilt phone-recharging stations.
Which will see the light of day as a STEM story published on an online news site, specialist education magazine, or newspaper?
It’s all about crafting a story-idea pitch, how, when, and where you send…
My latest installment as I delve into the phenomenon of out-of-field teaching as part of my Graduate Research in Education Research at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia.
Quilters sketch, stretch, cut and stitch, much like the process Australia’s K-12 education system undergoes to craft its ‘patchwork quilt’ of in-field and…
Yet, its impact for societies across the globe has been seismic and it’s ready for the future (at least, I think so).
The average layperson knows nothing of the Paradigm War; so intense some speak of it in the plural (Guba 1990, Smith 1989 and Gage 1989).
By the 1970s…
How beginning educators teaching high school mathematics out-of-field in regional Australia develop a professional identity
Dear reader: I’ve plunged into writing about out-of-field teaching for a post-graduate degree in education research. Here’s my foray into sense-making of this phenomenon.
Up to one in three beginning secondary school educators in Australia…
So, your child is about to start upper primary school, and you want to give them the best chance to tackle mathematics?
I’m based in NSW, Australia, so this information, and the links I’ve provided, are relevant to this state.
The NSW Department of Education gives you an outline of…
At a time when the globe is relying on university-educated health experts to try to keep COVID-19 at bay with the vaccine rollout, I’m bewildered by those who argue school and university education have nothing to do with ‘real-life’.
I recently came across this stance in the 2019 book, Fake…
“[They] were not qualified to teach it, did not have stories to tell students and did not personally identify with the subject and so lacked confidence and ‘flamboyance’ in their teaching,” says Dr Linda Hobbs.
Almost four out of 10 educators teaching high-school mathematics (years 7 to 10 inclusive) in…
So, you’re a substitute high school teacher and have just been handed your day sheet. There’s a load of math classes on there. You scout around staff room desks for lesson plans — some are sketchy on details. Oh, I didn’t mention you’re not trained as a math high school…
Why is it not okay to say ‘I can’t read’, but okay to say you can’t do maths?
That was a question posed at an ABC TV Q&A panel discussion on the Australian education system, broadcast on 8 October 2019 (and available to view here).
It seems like the groundswell…
If you’re a provisional day-to-day substitute teacher in school chances are you’re finding it tricky to get a school principal to say ‘yes’ to supervising you to become accredited or fully registered, depending on where you live.
Maybe you’ve even completed blocks of temporary teaching at different schools and been…
