Four tips for teachers to improve both the learning experience and the emotional response for dyslexic students.
Tips for teaching dyslexic readers
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Relationships in the media
I’ve been giving some thought to how much relationships in media influence the way we think about relationships in real life. While the research findings on the subject aren’t unsurprising, it is clearly a highly relevant theme in teaching media literacy.
Extending children’s learning
When we spend time talking and playing with children in an early childhood setting, we learn more about what interests them. In that way we gain more opportunities to build on their early experiences, extend their learning and so enhance their development.
Taking action with SOLO Taxonomy and hexagonal thinking
Last article in a four part series from Pam Hook, explores how SOLO Taxonomy and Hexagons can shift students’ understanding to a conceptual or SOLO extended abstract level.
How do you teach struggling readers to read?
Most classes include at least a couple of struggling readers, but how can teachers offer support to improve their literacy skills?
Young children’s natural connection with Science
Why teach science to young children? Because young children and science are a natural fit.
Connecting and comparing ideas about Earth’s systems with SOLO Taxonomy
In the third part of the series, Pam Hook explores how SOLO Hexagons can support students to move to a deeper level of understanding – the SOLO relational level – in relation to climate change.
Advice for new early childhood educators
Being new early childhood educators can be overwhelming. There are many challenges that present differently in the real world compared to studying early childhood education and care.
Integrating climate change into your curriculum
Climate change is important to student’s learning because they are are already experiencing rapid physical and social changes in their own lives.
Risky play and child development
Adventurous, risky play is often considered too dangerous for young children, but it is essential for child development and resilience.
Using SOLO Taxonomy to determine prior knowledge and bring in ideas about Earth’s systems
Second of a four-part series by Pam Hook on SOLO Hexagons and SOLO Taxonomy – a fusion of SOLO Taxonomy and hexagonal thinking as a powerful strategy for teaching systems thinking.
SOLO Taxonomy and hexagonal thinking in the classroom
Pam Hook presents the first of a four-part series on SOLO Hexagons – a fusion of SOLO Taxonomy and hexagonal thinking as a powerful strategy for teaching systems thinking.
Play and learning in the early years
Play and learning. Not opposites, but complementary. Associate Professor Christine Howitt discusses how play is what young children naturally do and how they best learn.
Child learning, development and schemas
The practice of planning provision around schema (patterns of repeated behaviour) rests on the premise that by noticing strong drives or interests in children, educators can support development.
Theories into practice – EC learning & development
Children change over time – that is indisputable. Bridie Raban discusses how early childhood educators have a significant role to play in children’s learning by supporting children’s change over time so that it does not rest with development alone.