Teaching your students about fake news
Dale Sutherland clarifies some key terms that help extend and deepen a discussion of fake news. She offers insights into teaching this challenging topic and its importance.
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Category: Secondary
Blog articles related to secondary school subjects, teaching, learning, issues, and more. Written by recognised educators, authors and staff. Each blog is tagged for easy filtering.
Teenage anxiety and learning in school
Teenage anxiety can have a profound effect on learning. Dee Doherty, educator, author and former special needs adviser, looks at some of the causes of teenage anxiety and suggests what schools and individual teachers can do to address this issue.
Relationships in the media
I’ve been giving some thought to how much relationships in media influence the way we think about relationships in real life. While the research findings on the subject aren’t unsurprising, it is clearly a highly relevant theme in teaching media literacy.
Taking action with SOLO Taxonomy and hexagonal thinking
Last article in a four part series from Pam Hook, explores how SOLO Taxonomy and Hexagons can shift students’ understanding to a conceptual or SOLO extended abstract level.
Connecting and comparing ideas about Earth’s systems with SOLO Taxonomy
In the third part of the series, Pam Hook explores how SOLO Hexagons can support students to move to a deeper level of understanding – the SOLO relational level – in relation to climate change.
Integrating climate change into your curriculum
Why is climate change important to young people’s learning? In Years 7–11, students are already experiencing rapid physical, emotional and social changes in their own lives. As they see it, climate change may be just one more disaster that no one can do anything about.
Using SOLO Taxonomy to determine prior knowledge and bring in ideas about Earth’s systems
Second of a four-part series by Pam Hook on SOLO Hexagons and SOLO Taxonomy – a fusion and powerful strategy for teaching systems thinking.
SOLO Taxonomy and hexagonal thinking in the classroom
Pam Hook presents the first of a four-part series on SOLO Hexagons – a fusion of SOLO Taxonomy and hexagonal thinking as a powerful strategy for teaching systems thinking.
Why mathematical problem solving matters
Author, Ian Bull,writes about why problem solving in mathematics is important. This challenge allows students to formulate a pathway to understand the nature of the problem.
How to explore thinking skills while studying film
Author and educator, Yvette Krohn, has written Making Connections: The American dream, exploring intertextual connections through philosophies, thinking skills, films and themes.
