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Indigenous students benefit from using digital curriculum resources
Research into the use of digital curriculum resources with Indigenous students found that The Le@rning Federation's resources improve learning outcomes and increase engagement and motivation of the students in a range of situations. Notably, the research found that students spend more time on task when using digital technologies. Significant gains were reported in student engagement across a range of priority learning areas, and particularly in Mathematics. There is sufficient information from the research to conclude that, just like their non-Indigenous peers, Indigenous students find The Le@rning Federation's digital content highly engaging.
Read the research report on The Le@rning Federation website.
Link to the Focus on Indigenous education page.
40 frameworks for reflective thinking
Reflective thinking is widely recognised as a critical skill in learning - and learning to learn. Increasingly, teachers are encouraging students to 'take a moment' and think about why, what and how they are learning. Trialled extensively in classrooms, Take a Moment! 40 frameworks for reflective thinking offers a variety of practical frameworks to support student reflection.
Written by respected author, educator and presenter, Kath Murdoch. Order now...
The CAFE Book - new from Stenhouse
The CAFE Book: Engaging all students in daily literacy assessment and instruction
In this clever new book from Stenhouse Publishers, the authors present a practical, simple way to integrate assessment into daily reading and classroom discussion.
The CAFE system, based on research into the habits of proficient readers, is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding vocabulary.
The CAFE system does not require expensive materials, complicated training, or complete changes to current classroom literacy approaches. Rather, it provides a structure for conferring with students, a language for talking about reading development, and a system for tracking growth and fostering student independence. More…
Text Me a Strategy
Capitalising on the lover affair between today’s youth and the text-messaging medium, this great new book from Pembroke Publishers offers 100 strategies for promoting student learning and personal growth in a fast-paced information age. Delivered in a ‘crisp and snappy’ form, each strategy is able to be easily taught, reviewed and reinforced by teachers. The essence of each strategy is captured in its name, which makes the strategy easy to recall, easy to apply, and most of all, fun to use!
Curriculum Leadership Journal
This week Curriculum Leadership features an article about robotics in classrooms. Robotics education lends itself to the applied, real-life problems found in project-based tasks, and facilitates self-directed, challenge-based learning.
