August 25, 2018
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Employers are often bemoaning the fact that many young people entering the marketplace do not have enough personal resilience to see a task through when they get stuck or enter a challenging longer collaborative group project. In one sense, these kinds of learning opportunities are not so much measuring knowledge…
August 21, 2018
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Erik Ellefsen is an American educator with an interest in educational leadership. In this podcast he talks to Australian national educational leader Daniel Pampuch. Daniel is CEO of Christian Schools Australia where he oversees 140 schools and provides advocacy for another 40 – representing 60,000 students. He completed his Ph.D….
August 20, 2018
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If we define sustainability as addressing the ongoing capacity for Earth to maintain life, and we consider this our goal, Education for Sustainability (EfS) is how we get there. Education for Sustainability (EfS) is an educational approach that aims to develop students, schools and communities with the values and the…
August 19, 2018
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In education, scaffolding refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process. The website Edutopia has some excellent ideas about scaffolding put forward by Rebecca Alber. Edutopia Scaffolding ideas [thumb link=”true” size=”lg”]https://www.edutopia.org/blog/scaffolding-lessons-six-strategies-rebecca-alber[/thumb] [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTR_snb-0nQ[/embedyt]
August 19, 2018
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The first meeting of the wellbeing team included some hard truths. Each attendee was honest about how they felt. Schools like any organisation must be able to offer space for honest reflection. You can not start a journey towards excellence until you first look around and take stock of where…