Assessing Young Children's Arithmetical Strategies and Knowledge: Providing Learning Opportunities for Teachers

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New South ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Early Numeracy ◽  
Part C ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Early Number ◽  
And Mathematics

Two interrelated initiatives in early numeracy are briefly described—the Count Me In Too Project in New South Wales, and Mathematics Recovery. The article then focuses on an approach to student assessment which is used in both initiatives. This approach enables teachers to better understand young children's early arithmetical strategies and knowledge. The approach is described in three parts: Part A focuses on initial strategies for addition or subtraction; for example, counting-from-one, counting-on, using finger patterns, and using strategies other than counting by ones. Part B focuses on strategies to solve two-digit subtraction and strategies for incrementing by tens and ones. And Part C focuses on strategies for early multiplication and division. Following this, the strategies which have been described in each part are discussed in terms of their relative sophistication. The discussion includes links to relevant literature and issues relevant to the teaching of early numbers. The conclusion lists six important points about early number teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Editorial

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. iii-iii
Author(s):  
Martin Nakata ◽  
Elizabeth Mackinlay
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New South ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Curriculum Renewal ◽  
Pedagogical Innovations ◽  
Key Participants ◽  
Renewal Project

The AIJE has an established tradition of publishing special Supplements to highlight papers on a particular topic. This special edition of the AJIE is an outcome of a 2-year curriculum renewal project funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, which focused on teaching and learning practice in Australian Indigenous studies. The project involved collaboration between academics of Australian Indigenous studies in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. The articles in this special edition comprise descriptions of pedagogical innovations and discussions or reflections on the issues engaged in the course of the project by some of the key participants.

Process safety – learning the hard way

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 616
Author(s):  
Steven Cooper ◽  
Casey Meakins
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Chemical Plant ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Teaching Experiences ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The World ◽  
Safety Professional

Did you hear about the leak at the gas plant last week in Tasmania? What about the high potential incident from the dropped object at the chemical plant in Queensland? What about the fuel depot that went up in flames in Victoria? And what about the tragic scaffolding accident in New South Wales? What do you mean you don’t have time and that you have a meeting to go to….? Learnings are everywhere, as is the pressure of business and operational expectations to have continued sharing of lessons learnt. When do you have the time, let alone your teams and operations have the time, to appreciate the lessons? We do many great things to manage hazards and solve others’ problems, yet how can we ensure that the lessons are actually being learnt? This paper shares the 25 years’ experience from a Process Safety Professional, highlighting learning successes and failures from operations and projects executed around the world as well as from direct teaching experiences concering the fundamentals of process safety. It touches on the responsibilities we all have as process safety professionals and what we can do to enhance learning opportunities for both engineering and non-engineering audiences alike.

Alcoholism and Drug Dependence as Factors in Psychiatric Hospital Admissions

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Drug Dependence ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
New South ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Primary Diagnosis ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Secondary Diagnosis ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Abused Drugs

The study is concerned with alcoholism and drug depedence as causal and as associated factors in psychiatric hospital admissions in New South Wales. During the 1966–1970 period, the only significant increase among first admissions occurred in the 10 to 19 age group: the proportion of admissions with the primary diagnosis of drug dependence increased from 3% to 5%. Among both first and repeated admissions, the proportion with a primary diagnosis of alcoholism (including alcoholic psychosis) was approximately seven times greater than that with drug dependence (15% and 2%, and 20% and 2.9% respectively). The proportion of admissions with a secondary diagnosis of alcoholism was also significantly greater than the proportion with a secondary diagnosis of drug dependence (7.6% and 5.3%); a secondary diagnosis of alcoholism was significantly more common than that of drug dependence in 9 out of 12 psychiatric diagnoses. In both the primary and secondary diagnosis of drug dependence, the most commonly abused drugs were barbiturates (14.5%), followed by amphetamine (5.7%) and opium (2.6%). Significantly more patients with a primary diagnosis of alcoholism than with that of drug dependence had longer periods of hospitalization. The relative ‘severity’ of the problems of alcoholism and drug dependence is discussed in the light of the relevant literature.

scholarly journals Editorial

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. iii-iii
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Mackinlay ◽  
Martin Nakata
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New South ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Teaching And Learning Strategies ◽  
The University

We are very proud to present this timely and significant Special Issue of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, guest edited by Katelyn Barney (The University of Queensland), Cindy Shannon (The University of Queensland) and Martin Nakata (The University of New South Wales). This collection of articles focuses on the activities of the Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network, an initiative funded by the Office for Teaching and Learning. The Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network was formed to bring leaders and early career academics in the field together to build relationships, debate and discuss central issues, and explore and share teaching and learning strategies in the discipline at tertiary level. These discussions at once untangle and re-entangle the processes, pedagogies and politics at play when Indigenous Studies becomes defined as a discipline.

scholarly journals The Synergy between John Dewey’s Educational Democracy and Educational Reforms in New South Wales, Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Mary Helou, Ph.D. ◽  
Linda Crismon, Ed.D. ◽  
Christopher Crismon, M. S. P.
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Impact

“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John DeweyThe current study examines the impact of John Dewey’s democratic educational principles on the recent educational reforms in New South Wales, Australia, using data collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews, with open-ended questions, as part of case studies designed for this purpose. The participants in this study are all Australian educators (n=60), undertaking full-time and part-time academic posts, involving learning and teaching activities at universities and other higher educational institutions/providers in Sydney, Australia. As part of the case studies, the individual, personal, and professional teaching and learning journeys of the educators are sketched in details in relation to John Dewey’s four (4) key democratic educational reformative principles. Finally, this research study concludes by providing a realistic response to the following question: Given the current liberal and relatively democratic educational system in New South Wales, are the Australian educators truly given the opportunity to create a positive and constructive future vision for Australia, in general, and the Australian graduates, in particular. The current study further provides a realistic and clear-cut description of the hurdles facing the current educational system in New South Wales, Australia.

Observational Studies of Australian School Administrators: Methodological Issues

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ross Thomas ◽  
Quentin Willis ◽  
David Phillipps
Keyword(s):  
Observational Studies ◽  
School Principals ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
New South ◽  
Secondary School Principals ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Primary School Principals

This paper is concerned with observation as a method of gathering information about the behaviour of school administrators. The paper first considers relevant literature on the methodology of observation in terms of the process of observation, recording and coding, and the role of the observer. The paper next turns its attention to two observational studies recently conducted in Australia — one of three secondary school principals in the State of Victoria, the other of five primary school principals in the State of New South Wales. The observations are described with regard to the establishment of each project, the recording of principals' actions, and the application of a decision-making overlay.

The Impact of Aboriginal Education Assistants (AEAS) in New South Wales Public Schools

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Wayne Scott
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School System ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
South Wales ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Vocational Aspirations

A considerable amount of research attests to the difficulties experienced by Aboriginal students in the school system of New South Wales. Coker (1981) states that Aboriginal students more than any other identificable group in Australia score consistently lower in basic skills tests involving reading, writing and mathematics. McConnochie (1973) suggests that the failure of Aboriginal students at school is primarily the fault of the school system and not the student. Institutions tend to debase the student’s self-concept and the group with whom they identify. This process contributed to the students’ low self-esteem and further contributed to low vocational aspirations and academic achievement.

Discretion versus prescription: Assessing the spatial impact of design regulations in apartments in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 1260-1278
Author(s):  
David Allouf ◽  
Andrew Martel ◽  
Alan March
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
New South ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Good Design ◽  
Development Control ◽  
South Wales

The Victorian Government introduced the Better Apartment Design Guidelines in 2017. The introduction of these new regulations is a response to growing criticism over the quality of the large number of apartments recently constructed in Melbourne. This concern is shared in other Australian cities, but until now Victorian planning regulations have been the least prescriptive and most permissive in terms of apartment design parameters of any Australian jurisdiction. Reflecting on these concerns raises several questions in terms of the effectiveness of regulating for quality. Does regulating design in apartments improve quality or stifle innovation? Can the effect be measured, given the large number of exogenous factors involved in apartment production, and what might this tell us about the nature of ‘good-design’ and ‘quality-in-apartments’? This study explores the way in which different development control systems regulating apartment design impact the quality of internal apartment design. The two systems chosen, operating in Victoria and New South Wales, have been considered per Booth’s framework of regulatory and discretionary development control systems with the previous Victorian system seen as discretionary and the New South Wales approach a mix of regulatory-discretionary controls. Ten planning applications for high-rise residential developments were selected from Melbourne and Sydney. These were analysed against a set of good design principles defined by reviewing relevant literature and existing regulations. The results of the paper suggest the intuition of the Victorian Government that some form of intervention in the market is warranted to safeguard quality is likely to be correct.

The Teaching and Learning of Environmental Education in N.S.W. Primary Schools: A Case Study

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 121-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Walker
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New South ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
South Wales ◽  
K 12

The aim of the doctoral study outlined in this paper is to contribute to the improvement of teaching and learning of environmental education. The significance of environmental education as a strategy to address environmental problems has been documented widely in Australia and overseas. This study shows that as a strategy to solve such problems its success so far has been questionable.The study assumes that there is a problem in the teaching and learning of environmental education and that the policy document, Environmental Education Curriculum Statement K-12 (New South Wales Department of Education, 1989) has not been adequately implemented.

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