Poor Academics? Try Home Schooling
Here is a video to encourage parents who think that their children are not learning well at school, to consider home schooling.
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Explicit Instruction: A Case Study of One School's Transformation.
In light of current perceptions of a decline in educational standards in Australian schooling, alternative pedagogies such as explicit instruction suggest a possible remedy. After a search of the supporting academic literature, this paper outlines one school’s adoption of explicit instructional pedagogies, including Direct Instruction (DI) and Explicit Direct
The "Daily Declaration" comments on my analysis of "The Malik Report".
The Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon. Anthony Albanese, appointed Mr Aftab Malik to be our "Special Envoy for Combating Islamophobia". Malik delivered a report to the Prime Minister, which proposed 54 recommendations, targeting 12 key Commonwealth departments and institutions that will change the Australian Government and the
Home Sweet Home: Clarifying the Differences Between Home Schooling, Distance Education and Learning- at-Home during COVID-19 Lockdowns
Home Schooling, Distance Education, and the government-mandated "Learning-at-Home" phenomenon for Australia's school children during the COVID-19 lockdowns are all different educational modes. Australia's State Government Education Ministers and the national media regularly interchanged these 3 terms, and indicated an ignorance of the 3 types
An Introduction to Home Schooling
This paper will highlight that homeschooling is not new to the educational landscape. It will address key issues relevant to home schooling including academic validity, the socialisation of home educated children, the reasons that parents choose home education and the recent growth of this pedagogy. Harding 2022 Introduction to Home