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Strong leadership vital for school progress – global report. The Educator speaks to Manos Antoninis, Director of UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring Report, about what the findings mean for Australia's school principals. News.
Online teaching vs the classroom: The pros and cons
The pros and cons. Kearney said the transition to online teaching presents unique challenges, not least of which is adapting traditional classroom workflows to digital platforms. “The pace of online lessons tends to be quicker, demanding a reevaluation of lesson timing and content delivery,” he said. “For teachers navigating this new ...
What Tasmania’s principals think of the state’s new funding deal
1 day ago · Tasmanian Principals Association President, Matt Grining, called the deal a “once-in-a generation, reset” of public education funding. “We certainly applaud both the State and Federal governments in being able to come to an agreement that provides a significant reset for public education in Tasmania,” Grining told The Educator. “We ...
Opinion: AI in Education – the latest way to bash teachers
1 day ago · Opinion: AI in Education – the latest way to bash teachers. by Byron Scaf. Speaking with a respected science teacher last week, she vividly recalled her own student days during a parent-teacher interview when her teacher remarked that she could do “so much better” than become a teacher. Her parents were mortified when she enrolled in her ...
Strong leadership vital for school progress – global report
5 days ago · UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report), released on Thursday, found school leaders lack time to address challenges such as students’ learning levels due to heavy workloads, with a third of teachers in wealthy countries saying they don’t have enough time to focus on learning. Manos Antoninis, Director of the GEM Report ...
The evidence is clear: Students learn better without mobile phones …
Our results suggest that after schools banned mobile phones, test scores of students aged 16 increased by 6.4% of a standard deviation”. Beland said this is equivalent to adding five days to the school year or an additional hour a week. “The effects were twice as large for low-achieving students, and we found no impact on high achieving ...
Landmark study reveals number one factor impacting student …
by Brett Henebery 20 Feb 2023. The most thorough research to date on classroom best practice has revealed the number one factor that impacts student learning is engaging teaching. The study reveals that factors like homework, small class sizes and a long school day do not have a big influence on students’ learning outcomes. The research ...
Using visuals improves learning by up to 400% – study
The use of visuals has been found to improve learning by up to 400%, new research into memory retention and its relationship with visual learning reveals. The study, by software company Videoscribe, also shows that visual learning methods are 83% more effective than text alone – a finding that could shape how educators approach the important ...
Students learn better online than in the classroom, new study claims
To determine the effectiveness of online learning compared to classroom learning, the researchers explored the use of remote learning by undergraduate accounting students after it was introduced at a university in the Southeast Asian country during the COVID-19 pandemic.. Researchers surveyed 482 first, second, and third-year students studying an accountancy degree in the 2020 to 2021 academic ...
Embracing online learning: The new educational paradigm for a changing ...
While many schools have been forced to shift to online mode, new research has identified some key benefits of the digital learning environment.. The study of 1,201 Gen-Z students by McCrindle found they were more likely to cite the online environment as better than the classroom for developing several crucial competencies, including adaptability (53% vs 25%); personal organisation (49% vs 32% ...