Illustrations of Practice showcase teaching practice from across Australia at the four career stages of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum. Annenberg Learner videos exemplify excellent teaching; all resources can be accessed for free
Sahara Special by
There are two files on Sahara Jones. The one the school counselor keeps is evidence that she's a fifth-grader who needs special education. The other is the book Sahara is secretly writing, her Heart-Wrenching Life Story and Amazing Adventures. The latest chapter in her book unfolds when her mother insists that she be taken out of special Ed. So Sahara is facing fifth grade in the regular classroom, again. But why even try to do the work, Sahara wonders, if everything just winds up in the counselor's file? Enter Miss Pointy, the new fifth-grade teacher. With her eggplant-colored lipstick, and strange subjects such as "Puzzling" and "Time Travel," she's like no other teacher Sahara has ever known. Through Miss Pointy's unusual teaching, storytelling, and quiet support, Sahara finds the courage to overcome her fears and prove which file shows her true self.
Nanberry by
The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself uncomfortably between two worlds, it is a new perspective on Australia's earliest days of white settlement.
Introduction to Effective Music Teaching by 
Art Teaching by 
Readings in Primary Art Education by 
Learning to Read in a Digital World by 
Teaching Strategic Processes in Reading, Second Edition by 
The Really Useful Literacy Book by 
Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics and Early English by 
Issues in History Teaching by 
Essential Primary Mathematics by 
The Problem with Math Is English by 
Teaching Primary Science Constructively by
1. Primary science: every teacher, every child -- 2. Constructivist views of learning and teaching science -- 3. Implementing the Australian Curriculum: Science with a constructivist mindset -- 4. Thinking and working scientifically -- 5. Energy -- 6. Electricity -- 7. Movement and force -- 8. Living things and environments -- 9. Living things: science and design and technologies -- 10. Materials and their properties -- 11. Physical and chemical change -- 12. Our place in space -- 13. Our planet Earth -- 14. Weather and our environment -- Coda -- Appendix 1: At a glance: key teaching and learning strategies and other pedagogical topics -- Appendix 2: At a glance: key content knowledge.
Primary Science by
This book provides a combination of practical lesson ideas and theory, focusing particularly on those areas that research has shown most trainee primary teachers struggle with.
The full set of books are available at the library under Call number 372.35.
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Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students by
​This book describes research undertaken by leading Australian researcher in Indigenous communities. While the chapters are Australian in their focus, the issues that are discussed are similar to those in other countries where there are indigenous people. In most cases, in Australia and internationally, Indigenous learners are not succeeding in school, thus making the transition into work and adulthood quite tenuous in terms of mainstream measures. The importance of being literate and numerate are critical in success in school and life in general, thus making this collection an important contribution to the international literature. The collection of works describes a wide range of projects where the focus has been on improving the literacy and numeracy outcomes for Indigenous students. The chapters take various approaches to improving these outcomes, and have very different foci. These foci include aspects of literacy, numeracy, curriculum leadership, ICTs, whole school planning, policy, linguistics and Indigenous perspectives. Most of the chapters report on large scale projects that have used some innovation in their focus. The book draws together these projects so that a more connected sense of the complexities and diversity of approaches can be gleaned.
History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory by 
Talk, Text and Technology by
Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnographic exploration of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This unique work traces the historical transformation of one Indigenous group across four generations. The manner in which each generation adopts, adapts and incorporates new innovations and technologies into social practice and cultural processes is illuminated - from first mission contact and the introduction of literacy in the 1930s to youth media practices today. This book examines social, cultural and linguistic practices and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.
Deadly ways to learn [kit]
Western Australia Education Dept.
Two books:
Call number 428.249915 DEAD
