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Direct linkNadine Meredith; Alison Busuttil – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2024
Studies into early mathematics education have reported that play, and active exploration, provide promising settings for early mathematics education (Ginsburg, 2006) as the early years is a time to engage children in a range of mathematical ideas to develop their mathematical capability (MacDonald, 2018). More recently, the Australian Association…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Play, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
Deb Brosseuk – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
Australian educators teaching in the early years of formal schooling find themselves grappling with the dilemmas of preparing learners to sit performance-based assessments in later years and their sense of pedagogic responsibility towards designing competency-based assessment. Studies have explored this tension in the primary and middle years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Performance Based Assessment, Competency Based Education
Wu, I-Chen; Pease, Randy; Maker, C. June – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore general education teachers' perceptions of their experiences while implementing the Real Engagement in Active Problem Solving (REAPS) model. REAPS is an evidence-based teaching model for challenging and engaging gifted students in a variety of settings. Twenty-three teachers answered 7 semi-structured…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Problem Solving, Teaching Models
Tomas, Louisa; Jackson, Cliff; Carlisle, Karen – Teaching Science, 2014
In 2012, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) piloted the "Wonder of Science Challenge" with a view to enhance school students' interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Students in 15 schools across northern Queensland were provided with an inquiry-based research problem and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Science Interests
