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Good stress vs bad stress

to form new memories for facts or events, information must pass through the hippocampus making it our, further neuron damage. During short-duration stress, cortisol leaves the hippocampus after a few seconds, . By first damaging then killing the memory gateway, the stress mechanism ensures we do not form deep, cortex thereby upregulating its function: attention sharpens, working memory expands, and focused, , norepinephrine allows for your far faster, far more reactive, and far more death-averse body to take

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Interdisciplinarity for science & mathematics

The teacher explores in his class the question of, 'How can I act to improve human health?' The lesson concerns the application of science understanding to society, and in this way the teacher is able to draw in subjects such as history and humanities. The teacher emphasises that 'fertile questions' needs to be rich enough to sustain an interdisciplinary curriculum over several weeks. He supports his colleagues in developing this curriculum, The Australian Science and Mathematics School has a specific focus on science and mathematics education, while at the same time embedding other curriculum areas such as the humanities into that learning. It is located on the Flinders University campus. The teacher is the senior leader of interdisciplinary curriculum

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Pre-service teacher placements beyond urban settings

challenge of being away from employment and family commitments for a period of time (Adie & Barton, ), which was established by educators from four Western Australian universities[2], undertook, Indigenous Outcomes project, the PREEpared project was funded by the Federal Department of Education and Training (formerly the Office of Learning and Teaching) and Monash University from 2016, students being taught by pre-service teachers. To facilitate this, the project focused on building pre

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Transformative classrooms

A teacher acknowledges that in some classrooms, teachers may be faced with students who present challenging behaviours, or who have presented challenging behaviours in previous lessons. She contends that teachers can create a learning environment characterised by well-paced lessons, explicit instructions, and response to individual learning needs and abilities. Students in a senior English class who have previously experienced failure, or who have been unfulfilled by their learning, describe, Gordonvale State High School is a rural secondary school located in the southern part of the Cairns district in Queensland. The school has approximately 700 students in years 8 to 12. Some senior students travel from the Indigenous community of Yarrabah. Students in the teacher's senior English class include those who have progressed though the school as well as those who have moved to the school

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Celebrating Early Childhood Teachers

with Foundation, the first year of formal schooling prior to Year 1, and ending at the end of Year 2, in the year before full time schooling Foundation year name Minimum age of entry to school NSW Preschool, children than one (Fox & Geddes 2016). Victoria is piloting an additional funded year of preschool, & Browne 2014). In these early years it is crucial to lay the foundations for a child’s future. This time, Certificates 15,640 As with schools, the funding of the early childhood sector comes from a combination

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The role of school leadership in challenging times

and families. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1104398.pdf Crisis management and the school, /10.4226/66/5a963327c68af. Nye, A 2016, ‘Working from the boot of a red falcon: The impact of major fires, leverage expertise and experience from multiple stakeholders to facilitate transition from a crisis work, pandemic is unlikely to be the last crisis we will face in our lifetime, and it’s not the first, , school leaders need to deal with the immediate, while remaining focused on the future, to achieve

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Romeo and Juliet

This short video depicts an English teacher who is also a learning area coordinator. He meets with fellow teachers and support staff in his school to plan for and prepare inclusive teaching strategies. These include differentiated teaching and learning sequences that meet the learning needs of all students in his class who will be studying Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Following this meeting and the lessons, his experiences are shared with his colleagues, The class being planned for, and discussed, is a Year 9 English class in an all-boys school. The class has a heterogeneous student make-up from a diverse range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. The school does not stream English classes, so students in the class have a wide range of academic abilities and learning needs. The class features one student on the State’s High-Needs Register and another on the Additional Needs Register. The classroom teacher, who is also the curriculum

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Good teaching is the key to getting the best from technology

Good teaching is the key to getting the best from technology, to getting the best from technology You are currently: Home News and media Media releases Good teaching is the key to getting the best from technology The Australian, , AITSL regularly produces Spotlight reports examining facets of education in Australia. Evaluating, , the report has handy resource lists for teachers and leaders to use in their daily practice. Key findings, student cohorts, including those with disabilities, those learning remotely, and students from

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Lifecycle of silkworms

At the end of a lesson sequence on the life cycle of silkworms with a composite class of transition and year 1 students, a pre-service teacher in her final teaching round draws together her students' observations using a range of science inquiry skills. Careful planning of the teaching activity is central to her approach. She uses an initial think-pair-share thinking activity before modeling, supports and focuses individuals and groups on their learning, Ross Park is the oldest government primary school in Alice Springs. It has almost 400 students of which 25 per cent are Indigenous. At the school, a pre-service teacher from Charles Darwin University is in her final round of teaching practice. The lesson allows the teacher to explore and use a range of classroom management strategies that can lead to effective individual, group and whole class learning

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Classroom management techniques

The Assistant Principal with responsibilities for pastoral care, who also has a teaching load, leads and facilitates a practical workshop to increase teachers’ knowledge and understanding of classroom management. He uses proactive approaches and techniques rather than reactive and problem-based responses to classroom management. In the professional learning session he works with his peers to model approaches that promote focused and productive learning environments for all students, The school is a co-educational Christian school in regional New South Wales. At the school, there is a strong professional learning culture. There is a commitment to using an evidence-based framework to in-service staff on current educational theories and strategies. As a leader in the school this school leader applies the framework to in-service new staff during scheduled professional development days prior to the start of the school year

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