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The Faculty of Education proudly extends an invitation to a free public seminar …Going to court over education: complaints against schools and the determinations reached by the courts
Presenter: Dr Linda Komesaroff, Senior Lecturer – Faculty of Education, Deakin University, MelbourneFor more than a decade, complaints have been lodged against schools and education authorities by parents [...]

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Hey, jump on-board (or ‘in the deep end’ if that’s how you see it) and start your own blog. Check out Mark’s edublog .. particularly if you’re into Media. His categories currently read: ‘Anglo Saxon/Medieval’, ‘books’, ‘film’, ‘history’ and ‘television’. Give you an idea of his interests?!
If you’re a Deakin student and happy for me [...]

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Read a recent article in The Australian, Higher Education supplement, by James Farmer who runs edublogs.

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Hi to the students in Geelong I met last Thursday at the lecture I gave on ‘Difference, Diversity and Doing Justice’.
Please leave your comments here if you would like to continue the conversation or have questions about where to learn Auslan etc.
Geelong has a wonderful Deaf community and I encourage you, if you’re interested in [...]

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In response to a number of queries from soon-to-graduate teacher education students (and those who like to prepare well ahead of time), here’s a great resource to help you put together a professional portfolio for teaching. It has been developed by staff in the School of Education at the University of New England http://fehps.une.edu.au/Education/portfolio.pdf
If [...]

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Try this fun activity with your students – great maths practice! How does it work?

How many times a week would you like to eat chocolate? (more than once but less than 10)
Multiply this number by 2
Now add 5
Multiply it by 50
If you have already had your birthday this year add 1756; if you haven’t, [...]

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Hi everyone,
If you happen to stumble into my blog, amidst your busy time in schools, and have something interesting to report about language teaching, in particular, I’d love to hear about it. Hope the prac rounds are going well!
Linda

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