By Graeme Perry, Published on 07/01/17
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Hearts are all aflutter in the Kindy/One classroom. How does learning about butterflies offer opportunities for learning about God?
This is a story about a teacher.
By Jenny Gibbons, Published on 07/01/17
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...
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