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Robinson, Gary; Leckning, Bernard; Midford, Richard; Harper, Helen; Silburn, Sven; Gannaway, Jess; Dolan, Kylie; Delphine, Tim; Hayes, Craig – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of development and the pilot implementation of a preventive life skills curriculum for Indigenous middle school students in a very remote community college in the West Arnhem region of North Australia. The curriculum integrates proven educational and psychological techniques with…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Indigenous Populations, Youth, Foreign Countries
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McDonald, Christine V.; Heck, Deborah – Teaching Science, 2012
The implementation of the Australian Curriculum: Science across the compulsory years of schooling (F-10) in most Australian states this year, requires science teachers to address the teaching of scientific argumentation in their classrooms. To attend to this challenge, we conducted an argumentation professional development program with practicing…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Experience, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
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Fried, Leanne; Konza, Deslea; Mulcahy, Peter – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2012
In many schools in Australia students often begin their primary years with limited preparation for reading. "All hands on deck" are required to ensure the best possible student success rate for learning to read. In this project, Education Assistants, often under-utilised in schools, were used to implement a reading intervention to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Early Reading, Reading Programs, Outcomes of Education