School illiteracy is no fault of children or their parents. Nor is it any fault of teachers or principals;they’re simply following the state-approved curriculum.
Have devices in the classroom and at home created a cohort unable to write,read or sustain focus?
Younger Australians are being told to expect a tougher future than previous generations on housing,education,income and climate. That gloomy picture demands action.
A daily mathematics quiz,phonics and explicit instruction are the reasons for the success of St Raphael’s Catholic Primary School in South Hurstville.
Education academics say the results highlight the erosion of explicit instruction from the 1970s,meaning teachers don’t understand the concepts they’re teaching because they were never taught properly themselves.
It seems like we never learn from the annual testing of students’ capabilities.
New NAPLAN labels don’t change your children or how they are going at school,but they might provide a better way to identify students who need support.
But it’s not all bad news. Students in Year 9 are excelling in numeracy,with almost 70 per cent hitting the benchmark – the highest in the country.
Experts say the overhauled literacy and numeracy results are a “wake-up call” as many students fall below expected levels of proficiency in basic knowledge areas.
Experts say teachers must adopt explicit approaches to teaching numeracy and literacy in primary school to address the results.
Queensland’s NAPLAN test results are in,and they don’t make good reading.