New from me for
@CISOZ
education: what can we learn from literature and the COVID experience about small-group tutoring in Australia, and what should happen next? ๐งต
I think a huge amount of metro love is basically the second line of this here post:
"I actually can't believe something this good got built in Australia".
3.10.2020
17.4.2021
10.3.2022.
533 days across three very different ceremonies in three very different places to wed my darling
@burrititabeats
and celebrate with wonderful family and friends
I tease my friends by calling butter chicken and garlic naan the "white boy special" but you know what, it absolutely slaps and I order it myself sometimes. Honestly who cares what food people order
White people ordering butter chicken, garlic naan, and mango Lassi at an Indian restaurant has the same energy as them ordering enchiladas, margaritas, and chips and salsa at a Mexican restaurant
Planners dream! Families nightmare!
High rise offers nothing for affordability.
High cost of high rise construction means only small, poor quality 1BR or 2BR flats or luxury (very expensive) 3+BR apartments will be built.
Young families further relegated to the fringe .
Pieces like this misread what expulsion in this sort of situation is actually about: protecting the girls who have been victimised from having to go to school with the perpetrators. Why should the burden be on them to put up so the boys can be 'reformed'?
"Explicit and direct instruction is trauma informed practice. It's predictable and they experience a high success rate" - Cranbourne Primary principal Lachy Yeates on the wellbeing benefits of shifting to explicit teaching
Found this in my letterbox earlier this week. No information about who has sent it. Unsurprisingly, it's Reignite Democracy. They aren't a political party (backing Palmer's lot) so I guess they aren't bound by disclosure rules?
@AusElectoralCom
?
[New Paper] "What is the Science of Learning?" by
@themetresgained
published today.
"Teachers need to be equipped with the science of learning to produce better outcomes for students."
Teaching methods shouldn't be about what the teacher prefers (frankly if you prefer to do stuff that doesn't work then find another job) but about what works for the kids. People who think this should not be training future teachers
"Letting students weigh in on teacher evaluations... is a great way to encourage teachers to do more of what students want. But whether those changes lead to improvements in instructional quality is another matter, and there are many reasons to expect that they wonโt."
We drove past the Royal at Daylesford just yesterday on our way to Trentham and Macedon. On a fine day like today that's virtually a long weekend it would have been packed. So devastating for all of those people, their loved ones and the community too
Former Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews has been awarded an AC (Companion in Order of Australia) โfor eminent service to the people and Parliament of Victoria, to public health, to policy and regulatory reform, and to infrastructure developmentโ
#springst
@SkyNewsAust
As I pointed out to a parliamentary inquiry in May, the Victorian Department of Education has not published a single report, evaluation or audit into any of their programs for ten years. To the extent we know anything about system outcomes, it's thanks to the Auditor-General.
@BenCarrollMP
@CrabbBrendan
And rather than hiding replies, how about you release the results of the study of the HEPA filters in Victorian schools, on which your government wasted $100m, before you throw another $10m down the drain?
I'll get the AZ but also I'm damn annoyed young people have been locked down consistently to protect those 60+ and they refuse to get a vaccine that's more likely to kill me than it is them
This decision from the Victorian Department of Education, which prevents schools from learning from each other, is a disgrace but sadly not surprising given how entrenched anti-phonics views have been in state policy.
Today was my second last day of school and one of the kids I've had in pastoral care for the last year and a half came and gave me a gift to say thank you and that he's sad that I'm leaving ๐ญ
NAPLAN testing for all students should be scrapped and the ATAR system recast to better reflect a student as a whole person, not just an exam score, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.
#education
This is really important reform.
The reading wars are over.
So glad to see Victoria rolling this out in classrooms.
Weโre also improving the teaching course at university so new teachers are better prepared to teach children to read.
The education union has told teachers not to implement any of the changes to the way reading is taught in schools in a fierce response to a state government mandate to follow a single model of instruction.
"Part of the drive to lift results has been a decisive move to an explicit teaching model, which favours clear instruction over inquiry or student-led learning."
Listening now.
@PamelaSnow2
is an absolute powerhouse of knowledge and a gifted communicator as well. Highly recommended to all interested in the state of Australian education, especially reading.
This cracker of an episode dropped in the last few days. โฆ
@rastokke
โฉ continues the careful exploration of evidence and practice for great learning and teaching. โฆ
@PamelaSnow2
โฉ again provides thoughtful and compelling analysis. Listen now!
The
@VictorianCHO
says driving lessons arenโt an essential activity after a 17-year-old Learner driver was fined $1600 for going out driving with her mother yesterday
@abcmelbourne
#springst
Victorian commuters are being urged to claw back the $113 million sitting on unused and expired Mykis. Daniel Bowen from the Public Transport Users Association joins
@mikeamor7
.
#7NEWS
@misha_saul
That's simplistic. People have different preferences for housing in terms of size, location, amenity and price. They make trade offs. If you ban or restrict housing from being built, you narrow the number of dwellings available to suit varied preferences and push up prices.
I'm quoted in The Age here about the lack of transparency around outcomes for the Tutor Learning Initiative.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are a whole range of reforms including Education State initiatives several years old where the only people who know how...
What was
@danbrettig
's idea of fun in his early 20s? Joining a bunch of old blokes on the research committee for a book about the history of church cricket in South Australia
People understand that flattening the curve was about giving the health system capacity and protecting the vulnerable as much as possible, not eliminating Covid, right?
So if you can't get below 15 cases a day with most workplaces shut, no gatherings at home and a 5km travel limit that kind of suggests that maybe the issue isn't with what regular people are doing huh
@tenaciousKat
EDI is actually really hard to do on your own and with nobody and nothing to guide you, when you can't observe others' practice or you don't know what it looks like in your subject!
"Further, since the pandemic is the biggest multi-government action and involves the most money spent on a government response since World War II, it seems incredible that such a vast and expensive undertaking is not to be evaluated by a royal commission"
SMH editorial: The cowardly limitations of this COVID inquiry make it negligently short-sighted and seriously undermine Australiaโs ability to fully learn from the pandemic years
This is an amazing series. I was one of those teenage New Atheists and went on a journey similar to many of those interviewed. It's a documentary style, not Christian apologetics, and would be of interest to anyone interested in the changing shape of faith in public life.
BIG NEWS:
This week I'm launching a new podcast based on my recent book.
Listen & subscribe now:
This is a deep-dive, long-form documentary into why new atheism grew old and secular thinkers are considering Christianity again.
The introduction and EP 1
A short piece on the connection between cognitive science principles and pedagogical practices that looks at the limitations of the research as well as its appropriate application
This is such a silly policy response. There is no evidence to suggest that the cost of HECS is a major driver of people not going into teaching. The problem is not the number of commencements of degrees but in fact the completion rates.
The government today announcing free teaching courses for all students who enrol in secondary teaching degrees in 2024 and 2025. They must work in state schools for two years after they graduate.
Comes after campaign from union about staff shortages.
#springst
My comments: it's great to see the biggest system-driven initiative yet to scale science of learning-based practice in Australia.
But I strongly believe Victorian state school students should have the same access to these learning opportunities.
Catholic schools in Melbourne will overhaul how students learn reading, writing and maths in a move expected to ramp up the pressure on the Victorian government to give greater guidance to its own teachers.
#education
I was thinking about this dress the other day and in my head she was so much bigger/curvier. The fact that THIS is what Dicko was objecting to makes me realise how fucking shitful the early 2000s were for any woman who was not a size 0. She is just a woman with hips ffs
If you're a Dan Andrews stan or otherwise interested in apologism for a dude who has more personal staff than the Prime Minister please mute or unfollow me for the next 6 weeks
The Australian Curriculum is copping fresh criticism โ what is it supposed to do?
Piece in
@ConversationEDU
with
@JessLHolloway
in which we argue for more attention on teachersโ working conditions & chronic underfunding over curriculum critiques.
A few political commentators are suggesting the tax cuts unfairly disadvantage younger workers. Folks, Gen X and baby boomers are not young. As a Gen Xer, I can confirm that.
Just over 20% of all Gen X and young baby boomers earn more than $156k each year.
Only 6.64% of all
@tetheredtoed1
Schools do not exist to employ teachers, they exist to educate kids. Some teachers have forgotten that and probably need to find another profession.
To the extent that such a thing exists, I'm a veteran of science of learning/evidence-based teaching conferences in Australia. But hats off to
@jettybe3
and
@learnwithmrlee
because
@whatworksseries
was one of the best I've been to. So informative and surprisingly funny
We loved working with
@sarahpowellphd
and her colleagues on this paper for
@CISOZ
. We need to broaden the discussion around effective maths practices in Australian education.
@jdtdobson
There was a big discussion in the SBP group recently about LI vs LI and SC vs LI and SC being visible to students throughout the whole lesson.
I saw this video linked recently from
@dylanwiliam
This time 5 years ago I had just been dumped, I'd gotten through my first term of teaching in Horsham and I decided I wanted to do a massive road trip through South Australia. Today my husband and I are finally doing it!
LATEST: From today, NRL families in quarantine are not allowed to use their balcony or even have the door open for fresh air. A directive from the QLD government.
@9NewsSyd
@NRLonNine
"Teacher-made materials may sacrifice the thoughtful sequencing of topics planned by curriculum designers.ย When teachers create or take materials from various sources, it is hard to maintain a โcoherent developmentโ of ideas"
@dnp3075
@_colourmeamused
I was going to go into the thread and say IT'S THE GUYSCRAPER EFFECT but decided I didn't need someone taking offence in my menchies
@D__Melb
One read is it's trying to downplay their crimes. Another is that it is trying to make it clear that an outward persona counts for nothing - they aren't easy-to-spot monsters, they look like normal and well-adjusted people
โOur expectations are high ... people push themselves and try to buy a home that is larger than they currently need,โ she said.
Probably because you pay stamp duty every time you buy a place so you want somewhere that will suit your needs for as long as possible ๐
A Melbourne buyer could save $140,000 by choosing to search for a three-bedroom home instead of a four, or $74,000 by switching from three to two bedrooms.