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Did you miss the Half day Seminar on "Supporting the Oral and Written Language of Students with additional needs?"
From the seminar we have some notes and two useful activity lists for classroom teachers to use to help make their classrooms more language friendly.
Supporting the oral and written language of students with additional needs - notes.
The language friendly primary classroom
The language friendly secondary classroom
by Dr Julia Starling; Speech-Language Pathologist.
Also discussed at the seminar was "Specific Language Impairment" (CLI). See a YouTube clip on "Specific Language Impairment".
Get Away weekend
Did you miss the weekend Get-Away?
See the pictures and notes from the weekend on Facebook.
Starter Pack
Do you know someone starting teaching?
TCF has put together a complimentary Starter Pack for New Career Teachers.
It contains notebook, pen, stamps, TCF brochure, bookmark and minties!
Contact the office with the name and address you would like it sent to.
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Homework
What determines a school's homework policy? John considers the research and the practice of Homework. Should students be given Homework? See the video by John Hattie below. What should be the function of Homework? What works? Join the discussion now on Facebook.
Supporting Oral and Written Langauage of students with additional needs
Harley Mills has shared his notes from the half day seminar on "Supporting the oral and written language of students with additional needs". These notes include some links to ideas for lessons and developing resources. Share ideas you have for developing students' language skills by joining the discussion on Facebook.
Modern History Syllabus
Alec Mills writes from his extensive experience and expertise to present some Recommendations about the Draft Stage 6 Modern History Syllabus. This particularly addresses how an Aboriginal Context in Modern History can include some excellent perspectives of Christians influencing Australia. How else can the influence of Christians be included in teaching? Are there other contexts where a christian perspective is relevant? Are there Christian influences in your local Aboriginal community? Share your ideas in the discussion on Facebook.
The leaning tower of PISA
John Gore writes about the Program for International Assessment (PISA), in "The leaning tower of PISA". How would you compare standards across countries? Is is necessary? What do you see happening to Australian standards of education? Join the Facebook discussion.
