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Margaret Marshman; Emily Ross; Anne Bennison; Merrilyn Goos – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
Curriculum change affords middle leaders opportunities for pedagogical and planning renewal. This paper reports case studies of two schools engaged in preparing for implementation of Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Drawing on interview data from a middle leader from each school, Bacchi's question, "What's the problem…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Curriculum, National Curriculum
Dickson, Anisah; Perry, Laura B.; Ledger, Susan – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
Policy makers in the US and several other countries are recommending that more schools offer an International Baccalaureate (IB) programme. However, little is known about the challenges that IB programmes present for teaching and learning particularly those meeting national curriculum. In this study, we examined the challenges of the IB's Middle…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Middle School Students, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries
Telford, Rohan M.; Olive, Lisa S.; Keegan, Richard J.; Keegan, Sarah; Telford, Richard D. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: Physical education (PE) can be considered the centrepiece of school physical literacy (PL) programs, but ineffective lessons or an absence of PE across the public primary school system has raised concern. This study aimed to evaluate the implementation, acceptability and impact of teacher delivery of PE as part of a multicomponent…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Literacy, Elementary School Students, Physical Education Teachers
Peralta, Louisa R.; Cinelli, Renata L.; Marvell, Claire L. – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: The ability of schools, school leaders and teachers to promote critical health literacy in teaching and learning is central to the development of health literacy in schools. However, research focusing on teachers and planning for health literacy through health programmes in school is minimal. This paper describes how one school Health…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Programs, School Activities, Foreign Countries
Swain, Katharine; Pendergast, Donna; Cumming, Joy – Australian Educational Researcher, 2018
This paper provides insight into middle school students' perceptions and reactions to their participation in the Australian "National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy" (NAPLAN). A case study was conducted over 10 months at two Queensland schools with different approaches to NAPLAN implementation. Student voice was elicited via…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Participation
Macdonald, Doune; Abbott, Rebecca; lisahunter; Hay, Peter; McCuaig, Louise – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: The association between physical activity/fitness with cognitive and academic functioning has become a topic of considerable research interest. Increasingly, schooling systems are being expected to respond to these relationships through curricular and extra-curricular interventions. Purpose: This paper reports on the qualitative…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Blackley, Susan; Walker, Rebecca – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
There is a body of research around the uptake of digital technologies in secondary schools, and a growing body of research specifically designed to investigate the use of one-to-one laptop programs. However this research focused on the initial uptake of the digital technology or initial implementation of a one-to-one (1:1) laptop policy. Given the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Access to Computers, Laptop Computers, Middle School Students
Pegrum, Mark; Oakley, Grace; Lim, Cher Ping; Xiong, Xi Bei; Yan, Hanbing – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This paper reflects on a 2013-2014 Australia-China Council project in which school students in Australia and China produced and shared digital stories about their everyday lives and local cultures, with students being invited to give feedback on the language and content of the stories produced by their overseas peers. The main lessons learned…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Cross Cultural Studies, Electronic Learning, Cultural Education
Hudson, Peter; English, Lyn D.; Dawes, Les; Macri, Jo – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
Implementing educational reform requires partnerships, and university-school collaborations in the form of investigative and experimental projects can aim to determine the practicalities of reform. However, there are funded projects that do not achieve intended outcomes. In the context of a new reform initiative in education, namely, science,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Expertise
Stewart, Donald – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of an Australian health promoting schools (HPS) project to identify key features of the concept of resilience and how it can be used in a school setting to develop and strengthen protective factors in young people, as a mechanism for improving social functioning and reducing involvement in…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Comprehensive School Health Education, Literature Reviews, Grade 3
Crooke, Alexander Hew Dale; McFerran, Katrina Skewes – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2014
The potential for music programs to promote psychosocial wellbeing in mainstream schools is recognised in both policy and research literature. Despite this recognition, there is a dearth of consistent research evidence supporting this link. Authors attribute this lack of consistent evidence to limitations in the areas of research design and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Well Being, Psychological Patterns
Yates, Lyn; Holt, Brenda – Australian Educational Researcher, 2009
This article examines a Victorian high school's implementation of a new Year 9 program which was intended to interrupt a traditional academic curriculum and to create an imagined oasis of care and personal development for students. It explores ways in which (1) the existing culture and context of the school continues to frame the subjectivities of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Thomson, Ian – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2005
Trinity College is a low-fee independent school in Gawler, South Australia. The college has an enrolment of 3500 students of varied socioeconomic mix, drawn from the northern suburbs of Adelaide. Trinity has recently been restructured into four R-10 schools and one senior school for Years 11-13. The schools share a common mathematics curriculum.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Mathematical Enrichment, Educational Environment