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 LEARNING
SYSTEMS
The Facebook education system
The Conversation
(opinion by Steve Goschnick), 30 Oct 2015
Facebook is planning a Personalised Learning Platform to
provide a customised learning and communicating system for students...
 GONSKI
FUNDING
Gonski door ajar
The Examiner, 30 Oct 2015
The Prime Minister, Malcolm
Turnbull, left the Gonski door ajar on his recent visit to
Launceston, by saying "All is being considered" in response to a
question about Gonski funding for the reform's final two years...
Turnbull considering Gonski
funding,
The Age, 31 Oct 2015
TASMANIAN
EDUCATION
DoE Annual Report released
 Tas Govt media
release, 29 Oct 2015
The Department of Education's Annual Report for 2014-15
includes detailed information on new areas such as school resource
package data, attendance and suspensions...
DoE Annual Report 2014-15 [pdf], DoE website
 TASMANIAN
EDUCATION
Tas teachers under pressure
The Mercury
(opinion by Terry Polglase), 28 Oct 2015
Staff cuts, specialised teacher shortages and increased
curriculum obligations only serve to reinforce the need for the
government to look after its current and future teachers, AEU state
president Terry Polglase says ...
 TASMANIAN
CURRICULUM
Return of computer programming
The Examiner, 28 Oct 2015
All Tasmanian schools will be
teaching computer coding by the end of 2018, education minister
Jeremy Rockliff said in response to a call by Opposition education
spokesperson Michelle O'Byrne for a greater emphasis on coding and
other STEM subjects...
EXTENDING
HIGH SCHOOL TO YRS 11-12
Flexible Years 11-12 extensions invited
Tas Govt media
release, 28 Oct 2015
 Education minister Jeremy Rockliff
has called for expressions of interest in extending more high
schools to Years 11 and 12, emphasising a willingness to consider
flexible and creative approaches such as commencing the Year 11
curriculum during Year 10...
Six more schools to extend, The Examiner, 28 Oct 2015
"Overwhelming interest", says Rockliff; "Back-flipping", says
O'Byrne, The Examiner, 29 Oct 2015
COMPUTING
CURRICULUM
Robotics needs to be taught in schools
The Conversation
(opinion by Leon Sterling), 27 Oct 2015
A professor emeritus says teaching
robotics is a tangible way of introducing computer programming to
young students and it suits students with a range of abilities...
CHILDREN
AS CONSUMERS
AHRC raises children's consumer rights
 Aust Human Rights
Commission, 26 Oct 2015
A national conference is to be held
in November on the rights of children as consumers, a topic that is
evolving to address issues related to app downloading, in-app
purchases and mobile phone contracts...
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
Don't worry, at least the wealthy kids are succeeding
The Conversation
(opinion by Stephen Lamb), 26 Oct 2015
 The Australian education system
itself is the cause of an uneven distribution of educational
opportunity continuing to exist, according to a report
by the Mitchell Institute...
Educational opportunity in
Australia 2015: Who succeeds and who misses out, Mitchell Institute
No Year 12 qualifications for more than 40% of Tas 19-year-olds,
The Examiner, 26 Oct 2015
Stop subsidising the haves, ABC Drum (opinion by Jane Caro), 26
Oct 2015
One in four students drop out of high school, ABC World Today,
26 Oct 2015
TASMANIAN
TEACHERS
Lifetime award for agriculture teacher
 ABC News, 23 Oct 2015
Jordan River Learning Federation
agriculture teacher Jackie Brown has been awarded Life Membership of
the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania for her
work with students...
 STUDENT
RETENTION
Widespread concern over retention
The Mercury
(opinion by Suzie Wright and Jane Watson), 23 Oct 2015
In-depth
surveys by UTAS researchers show that Tasmanian communities support
efforts to raise the state's poor high school retention rate...
TASMANIAN
EDUCATION SYSTEM
Too many leave empty-handed
The Mercury
(opinion by Eleanor Ramsay and Michael Rowan), 23 Oct 2015
The Tasmanian
education system is largely failing its students, two researchers
write...
SCHOOL
SAFETY
Swedish swordsman posed with students
ABC News, 23 Oct 2015
 A
masked man carrying a sword entered a Swedish school and posed with
students for photos before continuing on a rampage in which he
killed a student and a teacher and wounded two others...
NUMERACY
The maths success secret
The Conversation
(opinion by Steson Lo and Sally Andrews), 23 Oct 2015
 Asian students are good at maths
because they enjoy competition and their teachers embrace the rote
learning of tables which makes mastery of higher-level concepts
easier, two academics argue...
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Seven myths about dyslexia
The Conversation
(opinion by Serje Robidoux), 22 Oct 2015
 A researcher counters what he says
are myths about dyslexia, stressing the importance of phonics in the
early years and that a variety of problems are
described as "dyslexia"...
 TAFE
New TasTAFE board member
Tas Govt media
release, 21 Oct 2015
Bell Bay Aluminium general manager Ray
Mostogl has been appointed to the board of TasTAFE...
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Odds stacked against children in care
The Conversation
(opinion by Stewart Riddle), 21 Oct 2015
 National minimum standards in literacy and numeracy are less likely
to be reached by children in care, a report from the Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare called
Educational outcomes for children in care: linking 2013 child
protection and NAPLAN data says...
MATHEMATICS
Linking maths with reality
 Aust
Govt media release, 20 Oct 2015
The federal government will provide $6.4 million from the
Mathematics by Inquiry program for maths curriculum and teaching
materials related to the real world, the Minister for Education and
Training, Senator Simon Birmingham said today...
LITERACY
AND NUMERACY
LIFT schools announced
Tas Govt media
release, 20 Oct 2015
 The
68 schools to receive funding under the Tasmanian Government's
$17.75 LIFT literacy and numeracy program have been announced...
List of 68 schools to receive
LIFT funding
[pdf], DoE
Parents to help lift learning, The Examiner, 20 Oct 2015
CAREERS
EDUCATION
Careers education needs to widen its horizons
The Conversation
(opinion by Kira Clarke), 20 Oct 2015
 Careers education in Australia is not serving the needs
of students well, particularly those who are likely to be seeking
low-skilled jobs, a university lecturer argues...
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Preparing children for bushfires
 ABC News, 20 Oct 2015
With the Tasmanian bushfire season looming, children need
the reassurance of being aware of the home and school bushfire
plans, psychologist Susie Burke says...
AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
Updated ACARA website released
 ACARA [pdf file],
20 Oct 2015
An updated version of the ACARA
website (version 8.0) has been released...
ACARA website
version 8.0
What's changed in version 8.0
STUDENT
HEALTH
Schools should have sunscreen strategies
 SunSmart media
release, 19 Oct 2015
Parents and teachers should make the application of
sunscreen by children a normal part of the day, a mother battling
melanoma says...
AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
Updated Australian Curriculum approved
ACARA [pdf file],
18 Oct 2015
Australia's education ministers
have approved revisions to the Australian Curriculum in eight
learning areas, making the curriculum easier for schools and
teachers to manage and to improve the focus on literacy...
Tracked changes to F-10
Australian Curriculum [pdf], ACARA
Consultation report [pdf], June 2015, ACARA
 TASMANIAN
EDUCATION STAFF
Excellence award winners announced
Tas Govt media
release, 16 Oct 2015
 Winners of the RBF DoE Awards for
Excellence have been
announced, with images available on the DoE's Facebook page...
SECURITY
No threat now for UTAS
The Examiner, 13 Oct 2015
11.00am
An earlier
security alert for UTAS based on a social media threat has now been assessed
by police as not credible...
UTAS
Facebook page
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Sick kids suffer from extended
absences
 ABC News, 12 Oct 2015
There are no standard procedures for supporting children
who miss extended periods of school due to sickness or injury, a
report by advocacy group Missing School says says...
 ANTI-TERRORISM EDUCATION
Anti-terrorism role for primary
school teachers
The Mercury, 10 Oct 2015
The battle to
prevent teenagers becoming radicalised needs to begin in primary
school, counter-terrorism expert Greg Barton says...
 RAISING
EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
Hold them back
The Mercury
(opinion), 9 Oct 2015
A good start to improving educational standards in
Tasmanian schools would be to require students to achieve a certain
level of mastery before being allowed to progress from one year
level to the next, teacher Peter Wilson writes...
SCHOOL
CHOICE
The local advantage
The Conversation
(opinion by Naomi Barnes), 9 Oct 2015
Enrolling children in the local state primary school has many more
advantages than the average person would realise, an academic writes...
SEXUAL
ABUSE
Former Tas teacher jailed
 ABC News, 8 Oct 2015
A former teacher and fitness instructor has received seven years'
imprisonment for sexually abusing nine boys...
STUDENT
BEHAVIOUR
No more restraining with straps
The Age, 7 Oct 2015
 New rules to cover the handling of student
violent and dangerous behaviour prohibits Victorian teachers from
restraining students with straps, using a seclusion room or
restricting their breathing by covering their mouths ...
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Labor's student mental health policy
TasLabor media
release, 7 Oct 2015
 Opposition health spokesperson
Rebecca White has released a youth mental health policy that would
make social and emotional learning programs compulsory in primary
and high schools...
Enhancing the Mental Health
of Young People [pdf], TasLabor, 7 Oct 2015
Make social and emotional learning compulsory, ABC News, 7 Oct
2015
 TEACHING
PROFESSION
Teacher autonomy raises standards
The Conversation
(opinion by Pasi Sahlberg), 5 Oct 2015
Education systems perform better when there
is more
 teacher autonomy (but not school autonomy) and more teacher
collaboration, a visiting professor argues in a comparison of the US
and Finnish systems.
SCHOOL
ANTI-TERRORISM POLICY
Curriculum key to tackling extremism
The Conversation
(opinion by Omid Tofighian), 5 Oct 2015
Identifying the Eurocentric
assumptions in the 'white curriculum' and taking account of the
cultural background of potentially marginalised students is a key
component of addressing extremism, a researcher argues...
SEXUAL
ABUSE
Former principal jailed
ABC News, 5 Oct 2015
A former Tasmanian principal has received six years'
imprisonment for sexually abusing 14 children...
Possible reduced three-year
sentence 'inadequate', The Examiner, 5 Oct 2015
SCHOOL
SHOOTINGS
Trump's shooting solution
CNN, 4 Oct 2015
Responding to the recent college
shooting in Oregon, American Presidential candidate Donald Trump has
called for more mental health services and for teachers and students
to be armed...
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