"Self-directed learning" is a privilege confined to very few students who have a specific set of knowledge, skills and expertise. In that sense it's about as far away from an "inclusive" education as you can get.
I've talked to a lot of Australians these last few weeks, people are doing it tough. The rise in costs and the fact wages just aren't keeping up. Families can't afford another three years of the Morrison government.
Ipsos poll has labor ahead on primary vote and opposition leader the preferred PM. Neither was the case in 2019. The polls will need to be even more inaccurate than last time for the coalition to be returned.
Woke up this morning to find that the new prime minister of Australia had quoted my lyrics in his first press conference: “Just because you’re going forwards, doesn’t mean I’m going backwards”. Here’s my response to that welcome news.
You cannot write by success criteria. Asking children to write with a list grammar features to use makes writing hard. Writers focus on the flow of composition. Just bunging in fronted adverbials does not make writing successful. The success is creating an effect on the reader.
smh.com.au/education/hemi… NAPLAN aims to assess basic skills. Great artists know how to use the basic conventions of their art form & when to depart creatively from them. Berg could write his atonal operas b/c he knew his scales. Picasso learnt to draw before painting "Guernica".