Education revolution? I don’t think so!

So the Rudd Federal government is going to take away school funding if they under perform. I can’t believe it! It smacks of the UK model where perceived under performing schools are closed down within 18 months if improvement is not shown.
It begs the question, how will this be fairly and equitably measured? How? No [...]

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What a difference a week makes……

A “shop corner” in a kindergarten classroom has been transformed from an unattractive, unworkable space to a highly functioning, inviting learning space. All because the teacher handed over the problem to the students who designed (see drawings in previous post) , constructed and formulated a new layout with workable routines for the shop corner.

The [...]

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A kindergarten conversation

I had a great discussion today with Linda, the Kindergarten teacher at Haberfield. She had many questions about the possibilities of changing her current pedagogy to align it more closely with the principles of early learning.
We discussed what was currently working well. This is important as often the very structure or organisation of successful learning [...]

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Scootle

Just heard about a great Australian educational website for K-12 teachers called Scootle. It has a vast array of images, videos, audio files, learning objects and other information linked to many educational topics and subjects. It has been updated from the previous Learning Federation site. It is a free site but can only be accessed [...]

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So what is the best way to teach early learners?

Are we asking the right questions? At the end of Day 1 of the Early Learning course with twenty-one K-2 teachers from Sydney’s Inner West, the predominant question seemed to be
So what is the best way to teach students in K-2?
Fair enough. Often as teachers, we search for the holy grail, or the right answer, [...]

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