Search Results: classroom
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 09 May 2011
17 Comments
One in ten primary and secondary teachers will be entitled to extra pay as acknowledgement of their performance. While this is positive, the evaluation criteria seems biased against teachers in disadvantaged suburbs or those who voluntarily teach in remote regions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 March 2011
3 Comments
Parents and teachers have absconded. A violent altercation is documented by students with camera phones. During a drug-and-booze-addled party, a girl is assulted and left for dead. A pricey education is no substitute for an ethical framework.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 02 March 2011
19 Comments
Not until yesterday had I enjoyed a Mass during which I heard reggae music, washing machines, and an argument about basketball. What could be more beautifully human and holy than sitting over food and telling stories and insisting on miracles, in the company of a child and a dog?
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 31 January 2011
13 Comments
The furore that erupted when Chinese-American mother Amy Chua accused Westerners of being too soft on their children masks a subtle sharpening of middle class parental expectations in Australia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 18 January 2011
15 Comments
Do Australians hate Americans? No, because Americans invented basketball. What do Australians eat? Yeast paste. It tastes like someone ground up a penguin and then left it in the rain for a month before adding rubber and dirt to it.
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AUSTRALIA
- Barry Gittins
- 05 January 2011
9 Comments
The next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders may merge Asperger's into the broader 'autism spectrum disorder'. The father of a misdiagnosed two-year-old boy reveals the emotional and social implications of mental illness pigeonholing.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Jonathan Hill
- 01 December 2010
5 Comments
Dhurga is a dead language. At my school however it is taught to every student, Indigenous and non-Indigenous. A subject like this is quite radical in an education system that is heavily focused on churning out workers rather than thinkers.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Bill Collopy
- 25 August 2010
11 Comments
X people work hard. Y people are natural athletes. Z
people treat the world like they own it. Q people are violent. R people
are drunkards. S people mistreat women. V
people are queue jumpers. Racial generalising becomes racist only if we
accept its false premise.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Nigel Pearn
- 18 August 2010
3 Comments
The book was banned after parents complained about its anti-authoritarian attitude: 'Wanja [the dog] loved to chase the [police] van ... to bark at the van ... to bite at the wheel. The police van would drive away.' Like Jewish humour, Aboriginal humour is a response to a history of oppression.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 16 July 2010
3 Comments
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Fiona Douglas
- 30 June 2010
18 Comments
It occurred to me to approach my
school English teacher. This would be normal
enough, if not for the fact that she had been my teacher some three
decades prior. From the fog of my depression medication I somehow found my
phone and emailed her from my bed.
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 28 April 2010
19 Comments
Julia Gillard has not truly engaged with concerns from teachers,
principals, academics and parents regarding the overemphasis on NAPLAN-based school comparisons. For many teachers, the professional and only ethical thing is to oppose such moves.
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