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The introduction of a new 'explicit teaching' method in New South Wales schools has sparked anger among some teachers and parents but education authorities say it is needed to give under-privileged ...

The government has announced an updated Teaching and Learning Model for all state schools, to be implemented from next year, which focuses on what’s known as “explicit teaching”, with students from ...

We’ve ejected the phonics v whole language debate in favour of the explicit teaching v inquiry-based learning hot button issue. The problem is failure to accept that teacher expertise and professional ...

A valuable pedagogical process is the concept and application of explicit teaching, chunking, and sequence learning. According to Edwards-Groves (2012), explicit teaching can be thought of as the ...

Figtree Public School is considered a prime example of a teaching strategy that is core to NSW's new public education plan, with one student group recording a 23 per cent improvement in writing ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

Jane Louise Hunter has received funding from various public schools in NSW and independent schools in Victoria. Don Carter receives funding from the Australian and Queensland governments. New South ...

A new report released by the Grattan Institute has analysed Australian students' declining maths results. The report blames "faddish and inconsistent" teaching practices and found teacher confidence ...

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...