In today’s news media a story is running about the continued decline in young people choosing to study mathematics into the final years of school – especially declining numbers in the more challenging courses. NewsRadio ABC contacted me and here are a few thoughts on how this trend might be reversed. No quick fixes here…
The ‘creative memo’ in the image on this blog post features keywords and phrases from the High Possibility Classrooms (HPC) workshop held with 16 teachers at the end of STEM research in five low SES schools. The terms “professional”, “important work”, and “students” were repeated responses. Research at these sites focused on practitioner inquiry using…
In June 2022 my colleague Dr Darrall Thompson, Adjunct Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney will deliver a mini-keynote titled: Colouring New Assessment Futures at the Assessment in Higher Education Conference in Manchester, UK. Darrall worked in the UK for 15 years as a Designer and Design Educator, and as he says this experience…
I will come to the parent part in a moment. The phrase planning hard to teach easy is an expression I first heard my doctoral supervisors use in their classroom research in schools more than a decade ago*. The more I understand teaching practice and deep thoughtful classroom learning planning hard to teach easy is…
I do love a new book on technologies for education in schools. This short post is not a review but a sharing by me of what I consider an important and timely book that needed to be written to support teacher learning in AI in schools. Thank you to all THREE education scholars ie Rose,…
Hard to believe almost 12 months have passed since the launch of my second book High Possibility STEM Classrooms: Integrated STEM Learning in Research and Practice. During the year I was able to speak with principal groups, teacher associations and individual schools at invited online events about the research findings and approaches used in the…
