29 December 2013 There's a view abroad in some quarters - you can guess which - that improving the performance of our schools, seemingly falling against international benchmarks, is not about injecting more money but about something called “values”. In an opinion piece earlier this year, the Grattan Institute’s Ben Jensen seemed to agree with the tag line reading “raising teachers’ classroom skills is far more important than raising money”. But what’s the key to raising teachers’ classroom skills? Jensen concluded that it requires ….teachers having mentors, getting proper feedback about their work, being required to do research on education in collaboration with other … [Read more...]
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