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Learning Needs Analysis For The Deaf Education Sector, Julie Kos, Marion Meiers, Lawrence Ingvarson
Learning Needs Analysis For The Deaf Education Sector, Julie Kos, Marion Meiers, Lawrence Ingvarson
Marion Meiers
The Victorian Deaf Education Institute (VDEI), Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to undertake a project to design, conduct and analyse the learning needs of teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing. The focus of the study was to identify any gap between teachers’ existing skills and knowledge and the skills that are needed to optimise student learning outcomes.
Editorial : Garth Boomer : 20 Years On?, Bill Green, Marion Meiers
Editorial : Garth Boomer : 20 Years On?, Bill Green, Marion Meiers
Marion Meiers
Garth Boomer was perhaps the most important English educator of the last quarter of the 20th century, as well as being a major figure in Australian curriculum and schooling more generally.
Reflections On The Epic Challenge, 1989, Marion Meiers
Reflections On The Epic Challenge, 1989, Marion Meiers
Marion Meiers
The author reflects on the impact of an address by the noted Australian educator Garth Boomer to the 1989 joint national conference of the Australian Reading Association (now the Australian Literacy Educators' Association) and the Australian Association for the Teaching of English. It was challenging, explains the author, to be prompted to think of oneself, along with the whole audience, as 'advanced practitioners'. Garth acknowledged the conference participants as 'practicing or potential boundary riders, who have chosen to teach at the edges of your understandings rather than to operate from safe and stable ground'.
Teaching Critical Thinking, Doug Mccurry, Pat Knight, Marion Meiers
Teaching Critical Thinking, Doug Mccurry, Pat Knight, Marion Meiers
Marion Meiers
This edition of The Research Digest is focuses on theory, research and policy issues related to the teaching of critical thinking. It examines different definitions and views of critical thinking, and different approaches to teaching critical thinking. In particular it examines ways of posing higher-order critical thinking questions and the teaching of routines for critical thinking. A key feature of this series of research digests is that each edition will focus on the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL, 2012). This issue makes links to Professional Knowledge, Standard 1, Know students and how they learn, and Standard 2, Know the …