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17/06/2025

Evidence from research prevails. Winner.
No more open classrooms.
https://www.school-news.com.au/news/the-failure-of-open-plan-classrooms/

03/05/2025

Misunderstandings about neuroscience among school teachers...
Neuroscience myths in school
(Photo by Lionel Green/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
April 29, 2025
By The Conversation

What are the myths? And what does the evidence say?

Neuroscience research

Myth 1: ‘teaching to different learning styles will improve learning’
The idea of learning styles became popular in the 1970s. This argued students will show improved learning if they receive information in a very specific way. For example, “visual learners” need to see information to be able to learn, while “aural learners” need to hear it.
Wrong!

Myth 2: ‘students are either left or right brained’
Another enduring idea is we have personality traits that are either right-brained (intuitive and creative) or left-brained (analytical and logical)

There is evidence some brain functions hang out a little more on one side of the brain than the other. For example, language is more on the left and attention is more on the right. However, there’s no evidence your personality or your aptitude comes particularly from the left or right brain hemisphere.

The harm in this myth comes from students thinking they are “more left-brained than right” and teachers reinforcing this view. And from here, young people might think they should just stick to humanities or just stick to maths or science.
Wrong, again.

29/04/2025

And just when you thought it was business as usual...
I receive an email to say I am the
2025 WINNER "The Educator" Australia's Most Influential Educators

23/04/2025

FINALLY recorded, THE EXPERT says it clearly...
KINDERGARTEN children should NOT be given 1st 100 words to memorise by sight.

23/04/2025

Dr Ehri says it very clearly, 1st part missed, but the message is simple, "why do we have children read silently"....U.S.S.R (Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading) needs to be stopped! What was happening: Unlimited Student Suffering Repeatedly. (Or...students sitting wasting precious teaching/learning time).

23/04/2025

Feeling extremely fortunate to be in the presence of Dr Linnea Ehri...and Dr Louisa Moats....and Dr David Kilpatrick!!
List goes on

11/04/2025

Worth following

My name is Blake Harvard.  I am the AP Psychology teacher at James Clemens High School in Madison, Alabama.  I have been teaching for about a decade and received my B. S. and M. Ed. degrees from the University of Montevallo. I have a particular affinity for all things cognition and psychology; esp...

08/04/2025

Ohhhh, the age old debate, private versus public.
There IS a reason private schools exist, it's called 'choice'.
Delusional to think otherwise.
Dizda may well be delusional.

Murat Dizdar is a proudly working-class son of Turkish migrants on a deeply personal mission to win back students from the private education system.

08/04/2025

Parents - when speaking to your child's teacher, have this handy fact sheet with you.

The NCCD is based on the professional judgement of teachers and school teams about the adjustments provided for students as part of day-to-day practice. This document provides descriptors for each of the four levels of adjustment: QDTP, Supplementary, Substantial and Extensive, as well as informatio...

30/03/2025

12 mins, that's all.
THEN, finally, you will KNOW the truth about HOW children best learn to read.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently helping our 1st grade daughter through distance learning. This has opened our eyes to the ways that kids are b...

29/03/2025

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25/03/2025

Today's Budget...
$1.5m on schools for MultiLit in regional or remote regions.

Question - Do those that 'know' about reading programs, really believe this ONE program is the answer to reading and spelling delays? (It is one of many, BUT there are children who DO NOT respond).

I feel $1.5m could have and should have also gone towards Spelling Mastery, Reading Mastery and Maths Mastery.
And while I type, Little Learners Love Literacy too!

Give schools options - one size DOES NOT FIT every child.