Inspired by a “student-centred” approach to learning — in line with the “constructivism” philosophy of education woven through her university course — she set about creating an aesthetically pleasing ...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s federal Liberal-National government has unveiled a so-called expert panel tasked with imposing yet another standardised test, this time on Year 1 students. On January ...

How best to teach kids to read is a worldwide conversation – underscored recently in Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, by award-winning American Public Media investigative ...

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

Many people in education circles are keen for the impending Gonski 2.0 report. But their eagerness was far outweighed by educators' fervour to see the results of South Australia's trial of the ...

Statewide tests recorded 63 per cent of the nearly 14,000 students who took part met or exceeded the expected scores. This was an 11 percentage point increase on last year and 20 percentage points ...

The Federal Government faces an uphill battle in convincing the states to adopt its proposed check of whether all Year 1 students have basic reading skills. The NSW Teachers Federation said teachers ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. There has been considerable controversy around the proposed introduction of screening checks to identify at an early stage those ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from SA News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Statewide tests recorded 63 per cent of the nearly 14,000 students who took part met or exceeded the ...