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News for Tasmanian Teachers
Archive for October 2019
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STUDENT SUPPORT
Schools should hire wellbeing counsellors
MOBILE PHONES
Mobile phone ban for WA students
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Boris gets his election
STUDENT SUPPORT
Illegal disability refusals common
LITERACY
LIFT for 29 schools
MEMORY AND LEARNING
Context helps memory
WEATHER ALERT
WORLD NEWS
BREXIT deal
stymied
STUDENT SUPPORT
Adjusting for disability
WORLD NEWS
BREXIT deal agreed
Don't wax lyrical over study songs
STUDENT WELLBEING
Wellbeing surveyed
TASMANIAN ABORIGINAL CULTURE
palawa kani vocabulary widens
MUSIC
Composing video game music
Abolish private schools?
Interest rates cut by 0.25 per cent
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Schools
should employ mental health and wellbeing counsellors to help
overcome Australia's annual $180 billion mental health bill, the
Productivity Commission says...
Government school students in
Western Australia will face a mobile phone ban along with
restrictions on smart watches and tablets next year...
Over 12 per cent of students with a disability are
refused school enrolment, a survey published by CYDA (Children
and Young People with a Disability) shows.
The state government's Learning
in Families Together (LIFT) program will be extended to a
further 29 schools to encourage more parents to participate in
the improvement of their children's literacy skills.
Reliving the context in which
something had been learned helps you remember more about it, an
academic writes.
The British parliament has not
accepted PM Boris Johnson's negotiated BREXIT deal, instead
triggering confusion by asking the EU for an extension while the
PM advises the EU he disagrees with an extension being granted
Listening to music while
studying is less likely to be a hindrance if it puts a student
in a good mood, is neither too loud nor too fast, and contains
few or no lyrics - so long as the student is not too introverted
- a
psychology lecturer suggests
An expanded dictionary has been
produced for the reconstructed Tasmanian Aboriginal language,
palawa kani
The composition of music for
video games has come a long way, an academic writes
The British Labour Party wants
private schools to be abolished for the 5 per cent of students
who attend them but abolition is virtually out of the question
in Australia where non-government schools are considerably more
popular, an academic writes