Teacher’s Toolkit March 31, 2025 Part 4: Getting Better at Conferring, Years 3-6 Sharon concludes by addressing punctuation challenges with Year 4 students, using the protocol’s fluency rubric to provide specific language for strategy development. She...
EduResearch Matters April 24, 2025 By Mary Ann Hunter, Geoff Broughton and Michael Anderson Australia’s education system is facing a significant crisis, with school principals experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and adversity. A recent report by the...
teachific 23 March 2025 Sharon Cullen Transforming Literacy: A Journey of Growth and Innovation In a thought-provoking conversation between Sharon Callen, a literacy consultant, and Tamara Biddle, a Foundation year teacher at Mount Barker South Primary School, we gain...
Australia Reads April 8, 2025 As the election race kicks off in earnest, Australia Reads has joined forces with partners from across the industry to advocate strongly for investment in books and reading. Fair policies and investment are vital as reading rates decline,...
SchoolNews by Shannon Meyerkort An exciting new competition for First Nations secondary students could see them head to Canberra to share their stories. The Department of the House of Representatives has launched Yarning, an exciting new competition designed to...
Teachific March 24, 2025 Sharon addresses diverse reading challenges with older students. A Year 5 girl struggling with chapter book comprehension learns to apply visualisation effectively by keeping her “mind in the book” paragraph by paragraph. She...
The Conversation 8 April 2025 by Jessica Holloway All Australian schools are required to teach the Australian Curriculum. Commonwealth and state and territory education ministers first approved the curriculum in 2009. It applies from the first year of schooling...
Hello everyone,At the start of April, your Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin joined six other International Laureates and Reading Ambassadors at the International Children’s Laureate Summit at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.It was an...
The Teachers Toolkit March 17 2025 Part 2: Getting Better at Conferring, Years 3-6 In this podcast, Sharon Callen continues describing her conferring approach, emphasising how giving students space to reflect develops their self-regulation. With a second Year 3...
EduResearch Matters March 31, 2025 Trent Davis As digital technology becomes more ingrained in early childhood education, the debate over its effects on young children’s physical literacies intensifies. While there’s no denying the potential of technology to engage...
