teaching and learning

It’s an expensive option for schools, especially in terms of the PD required, and I think unresponsive to contemporary thinking about education, especially at the Diploma level, but I’ve rarely seen teachers so enthusiastic and positive about curriculum as teachers at an IB Conference I attended in NZ a few years ago. It’s growing [...]

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Shaun Carney’s AGE article today talks about the deteriorating physical state of some state schools in Victoria particularly, as highlighted in a new book released by Brian Caldwell this week, and suggests somewhat mischeviously that perhaps the Federal Government, who have so many bright suggestions to make about schools, should take over. He talks of [...]

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