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| | A teacher centred, knowledge based curriculum is not a particularly fashionable idea in Australian education. In-fact knowledge has a bit of an image problem. Teacher centred approaches which emphasise the importance of knowledge are considered by many prominent people in education in Australia to be backward and harmful to student learning. Concept based learning...
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| | When I write about 'explicit instruction' I mean something quite specific. It is the set of practices that emerged from the process-product research of the 1960s and 1970s. Briefly, researchers visited classrooms, recorded various teacher behaviours and then looked for correlations between those behaviours and students' academic gains. Thomas Good and Jere Brophy worked hard...
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| | The 'war' on Teacher Talk Time was one of the more depressing developments in my teaching career. Obviously secondary students will rapidly get bored if they are subjected to lectures - no one is advocating that teachers should drone on and on for hours - but the obsession with cutting down teacher talk became dysfunctional...
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| A five-year, $4.63 million award from the National Science Foundation will enable a multi-disciplinary team of researchers at the University of Arkansas to recruit, educate and train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. The program will provide the knowledge and tools necessary to protect network and computer systems in three cybersecurity, transportation security, and critical infrastructure security. "The federal agencies that support these industries - all critical to our nation's security and economic health - understand that new cybersecurity challenges are met with an increasingly . . .