TEACH Journal of Christian Education

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List of Papers (Total 397)

It's Short-Sighted

By Graeme Perry, Published on 07/01/17

A Nexus of Eyes: The Praxis of Chaplaincy in One Faith Based Educational System Through Emerging Emic Perspectives

Internationally chaplaincy as a whole, and school based chaplaincy in particular, is morphing into new forms within emerging national uncertainties, and cultural diversity. Drawing on their work in Ireland, King and Norman (2009) believe that the role of school chaplains everywhere needs to be carefully realigned and rethought. This paper seeks in part to address this situation...

STEM Down the Track: Two Christian Schools

Students’ perceptions of what STEM is and how it has been implemented in their schools is reported in this paper. Students were asked in focus groups about what STEM is and how they had seen the progress their two respective schools had made in its implementation. The data showed that students were very familiar with what STEM is and how it was developing in their schools. While...

Learning Thresholds: A Journey in Online Learning and Teaching

Three tertiary business educators transitioned their teaching from a just face-to-face mode of content delivery into online/blended content delivery formats. It was found there were three dominant domains of learning thresholds for these educators, which involved the course, student engagement and the teacher. The course domain considered alternative approaches to teaching and...

Best Practice in International Service Learning (ISL): Aspects of Risk and Impact

This article outlines the difference between international service learning and short term mission trips. It then proposes six features of effective international service learning that are likely to minimise risk while resulting in demonstrable impact.

Nature-Based Learning in Christian Schools: Essential Element or Optional Extra?

When children commence school, they face thirteen or more years of formal education, most of it within four walls. Outside of school, many children are growing up in a world that offers decreasing opportunities to connect with nature. Advances in technology, changing social structures and urbanisation are factors that limit the time children spend in the natural world. In the...

St Andrew's Cathedral School's Teaching Christianly Framework

This article seeks to outline the challenges faced in developing and implementing the Teaching Christianly Framework to an established, elite Sydney independent school. The success of its implementation has relied on strong strategic alignment to the school’s mission and vision as well as building capacity with mid-career staff to work with Heads of Department who tend to be...

Transforming Classroom Practice

Hearts are all aflutter in the Kindy/One classroom. How does learning about butterflies offer opportunities for learning about God?

NAPLAN Gains and Explicit Instruction

By Jenny Gibbons, Published on 07/01/17

Level One Autism / High-Functioning Autism: Implications for Schools, Principals and Teachers

A Contextualisation Recently a Master of Teaching student shared with me his practicum experience at a local primary school. “If only I had done your assignment first” he said, for a new student with high functioning autism had been enrolled in the class but his supervising teacher was at a loss to manage the perplexing behaviour in the classroom. Then a Master of Education...

How to Develop the Habits of Outstanding Teaching

By Peter W. Kilgour, Published on 11/01/16

Tell the World

By Daniel Reynaud, Published on 11/01/16

Getting on Board With the STEM Revolution: Two Christian Schools’ Experiences

By Peter W. Kilgour, Phil Fitzsimmons, Vanessa Baywood, et al., Published on 11/01/16

Character, Oh! Character, Where Art Thou?

By Stephen J. Fyson, Published on 11/01/16

A Whole School Approach to Changing School Culture: The SASA Way

By Danyel Efstratiou and Anjuli Cruz, Published on 11/01/16

Transforming Classroom Practice

By Andrea Thompson and Beverly Christian, Published on 11/01/16

Dyslexia: 10 Strategies

By Julie Sutton and Marion Shields, Published on 11/01/16

What I ‘C’ is a Crucial Tool in our Schools

By Marty Ogle, Published on 11/01/16