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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Australian schools"”.
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Teacher understandings of responsibilities for reading instruction in stage one and two English courses of study in Western Australian schools
… regard to the Reading Outcome in the Western Australian English Courses of Study. As an experienced secondary English teacher, the researcher was aware that the reading demands of senior secondary classrooms were challenging for some students and that many teachers were unsure of how they …
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Defining the future: creating and sustaining e-confident schooling
… a vision that is relevant and challenging to Australian education. Examining the notion of what e-confidence means for students, teachers, school leaders and schools enables a consideration of what strategies can be deployed for achieving this in all Australian schools.
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A behavioural checklist for the measurement of self-esteem in the classroom
… Questionnaire) is in present use in Western Australian schools, the scores of the Behavioural Checklist were compared with the LAWSEQ self-report to establish some measure of the concurrent internal validity of the instrument.
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Teachers, teams and technology: Investigating a team approach for supporting teachers' uptake of ICT
… teachers, professional development planners and schools in their use of and support for ICT and its associated professional development.A review of the literature suggests two factors were of particular significance to teachers in Western Australia. The first was collaboration, and the second was …
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Group Differences in the Achievement-Related Cognitions of Australian High School Students
… 203 females) recruited from five large secondary schools from across Metropolitan Melbourne. The results showed that most of the significant differences in students' achievement-related cognitions were grade and identity status related. This suggests that much of the variability in …
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Monitoring Standards Of Science Investigation Skill Attainment By Tongan Secondary Science Students
… The instruments were piloted twice in Western Australian schools, revised, piloted in Tonga and then administered to students at ten high schools In Tonga. From the written test of science process skills, it was found that more than 60% of the Form 5 students had not attained the benchmark …
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Notions of justice through drama
… recommendations be considered by The Western Australian Curriculum Council for inclusion in Drama syllabi to further strengthen the Council's thrust for a values-based curriculum in Western Australian schools.
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Teaching for students' confident transition from number to algebra
… the national curriculum by 2013 saw students in schools across the country taught introductory algebraic concepts from Year Five. In the twenty first century the need to be algebraically competent has become a necessity much as computation was in the previous centuries. The Researcher has found …
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Syntactic awareness and reading development: A training study with young children
… particular curriculum documents used in Western Australian schools. It is further suggested that more training studies are needed to examine the effects which different language curricula may have on the development of syntactic awareness in early readers.
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Ideologies, policies, and practices: Japanese language education in Australian secondary schools
… teachers (JLTs), and language ideologies in Australian society as expressed in general attitudes towards additional languages education. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on JLTs was also considered. Drawing on Language Planning and Policy and a critical sociocultural approach, this …
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Extra-curricular activity participation, connectedness to school and cigarette and alcohol use : how the relationships work
… attending 18 Government and non- Government schools in Perth, Western Australia. This naturalistic observation study (2004-2006) monitored students‟ participation in ECA provided by their school, perceived connectedness to school, teachers and peers and cigarette and alcohol consumption. In …
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The response of secondary students from non-English speaking backgrounds to a visual arts course
… from minority groups within society. Many Australian schools are experiencing increases in enrolments of students from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB). These students may themselves be immigrants or the children of one or both parents born in another country. This study is concerned …
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A case study of two year six classes involved in a health-related fitness intervention
… produce healthier adults. In Perth the Western Australian Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition project (WASPAN) has been implemented, as a Year 6 intervention, addressing the problems of poor nutritional habits and low activity levels. The focus of this case-study was to describe the physical …
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From Southern Sudan to Adelaide: learning journeys of refugee secondary students
… Sudanese refugee students in Adelaide secondary schools by examining their learning, both in their homeland context in southern Sudan prior to its independence and in their mainstream schooling and life experiences in the Adelaide context. School leaders and teachers in Australia have generally …
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A learning community approach to schooling: Two Australian case studies
… of a learning community approach in two rural Australian communities with a particular focus on the initiatives of a primary school in each community. Case study research describes and analyses the developments in each community and a cross case analysis examines similarities and differences in …
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Comparing Western Australia and South Australia public high school’s cyberbullying policies – is there a need for a legislative change
… the need for preventive strategies by requiring schools to have an anti-bullying plan in place. Other countries, like Ontario, Canada have implemented similar preventative strategies in their legislation. One way to reduce cyberbullying in schools is to create an anti-bullying culture within the …