Numeracy

Africa and mission trips are two topics that go hand in hand. When one is mentioned, the other is surly to follow. But this was not always the case. Missionary presence in Africa started around the fifteenth century when Portugal first made contact with Africa for trading routes. In order to gain land near the sea, the Portuguese “initiated the "Reconquista" project to recover Iberian lands from the Muslims” (Kalu 782-787). However, “…the force of the ministry weakened with the changing pattern…

Imagine you’re back in 5th grade, you are playing on an iPad, and you want to know how it all works. You ask your parents; they don’t know they just say “It’s magic” but you know it not magic. Where do you go? You can’t go to your teachers because they probably wouldn’t know either. Code is the new language of our world; it runs everything, yet we aren’t teaching it in school. The skills learned from programming are so universal and essential that there should be no question about teaching in…

The health inequality of the aboriginal people has been a long time concern for Australia. This essay will address some issues surrounding this topic. It will seek to explore the national strategy in regards to ‘Closing the Gap’ in relation to the aboriginal people of Australia. The differences between indigenous Australians and non-indigenous Australians are sought out in this essay. It will include existing national strategies, proposition of additional approaches and further suggestions of…

Research Planning What did this activity involve you doing? This mind map involved me creating a visual map of the key concepts and main ideas of netball. This meant choosing subheadings that were areas of netball that are important or areas that interest me. I chose 10 subheadings these were Coaching, Training, Fitness, Diet, Fitness Components in Netball, Income, Positions, Jobs, reaching a professional level and also Umpiring. This task then involved me adding to each subheading to…

purpose of this is to continuously monitor and evaluate children’s learning, to inform parents of the student’s learning achievement, and to inform the community of the school’s ranking among the annual National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). Each state in Australia has their own school curriculum and assessment reporting policies in place, which must align with the Australian curriculum framework. This will ensure all Australian students will become successful learners,…

Introduction Job training is fundamental to helping public assistance recipients and minimally skilled workers achieve lasting economic stability. With the majority of welfare recipients either unemployed or minimally employed, and recent “welfare-leavers” in low-wage positions with no benefits or skills, the notion of self-sufficiency is unreal. To that end, one strategy to address this facet of the poverty issue is the adoption of workforce development initiatives. Factual Background The…

Within today’s school environment, educational authorities require all teachers to implement a holistic and inclusive curriculum into their daily classroom practices. Teachers must make regular adjustments, modifications and differentiate pedagogical content and practices, in order to ensure that the needs of each individual child are met. Through implementing inclusive practices within the daily classroom setting, teachers are ultimately creating a positive effect on learning outcomes for all…

From these studies, the place of talk in the classroom remained a major focus of interest for teachers and academics. Subsequent work by the Nuffield Foundation in the 1970’s explored the effect of various classroom lay-outs on the quality of talk; but it was The Bullock Report (1975) which effectively gave official authorisation to oracy, capturing the importance of language in all its forms and its single minded response that ‘… by its very nature a lesson is a verbal encounter through which…

In what ways do social class, gender and ethnicity intersect with educational achievement and participation? Education is an intrinsic part of society since it began mass propagation following the Industrial Revolution. From the outset social class has been inextricably linked to education as the shift from private to public education saw the inclusion of boys from classes below the nobility. Gender is also wedded to education as in the past and in some countries presently girls face barriers…

note that not only does physical education take “time” away from other subjects, but it interferes and conflicts with timetabling and scheduling due to the need to share the gymnasium. This in turn will often “break up” solid blocks of literacy and numeracy time.” But undoubtedly this can be challenged, because even if PE takes time away from other classes, and interferes with gym sharing schedules, physical education is still a big part of the needed exercise and and education needed by…