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- Long-Term Maths Learning Beats Short-Term Test Prep
  
  As the school terms plod on, time pressure creeps up on everyone. So, it is important to make progress early, while students are fresh from the break, before things start to pile up. This is...
- I’m just not a “maths person”
  
  What if we are ALL maths people, but some of us have been led to believe we’re not? And what if we’re passing on to our kids a detrimental preconception about maths? Is there even such a thing...
- Learning to learn – Why we won’t sit with one student for 75 minutes
  
  We do not ‘spoon-feed’ our students. As they progress through year-levels, successful students are those who 'help themselves' rather than relying on an overworked and possibly disinterested...
- AI responses to a Year 12 English assessment task
  
  I started a chat with an Artificial Intelligence platform by copying and pasting the text from a Year 12 assessment task sheet. For more information on AIs in education, see this page. My...
- Preparing Students For Puberty
  
  “I used to get this stuff…” At puberty, the teenage brain temporarily looses some of its capacity for academics. We want our students to have learnt ahead in the core curriculum with...
- University course price changes from 2021
  
  Radical change to university incentives has been needed for some time. And here it is! (Announced 19 June 2020) But what a year for school-leavers! The first to graduate with an ATAR in...
- Maths and English tutoring during Covid-19
  
  Education, school and tutoring in the face of Covid-19 2022 Term 1 Update For a moment there, we thought school disruptions might be behind us. While we have so far 'got of lightly' compared to...
- Looking for free remote learning activities this holiday?
  
  During the Covid-19 social restrictions ELC has moved temporarily to remote learning to keep our students' safe while keeping their hard-earned progress from being compromised. From Term 2 2020 we...
- Which maths? Methods, Specialist or General?
  
  Which maths? Short answer: Methods We say students should have Mathematical Methods as their default expectation, and aspire to it from early on. (Formerly equivalent to Maths B.) In Year 10,...
- Procrastination…
  
  Guilty pleasure I guarantee you’ve more than once suppressed that slippery guilt that comes with putting off today what could be done tomorrow. And you have no idea how long this topic has been...
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More Queensland Students Sit Out NAPLAN

Dan Blore
22 August 2015
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Tags: NAPLAN, testing

NAPLAN have released preliminary statistics for this year’s testing. While theoretically it’s great to have data which could be well used to help decide what actions are needed to improve outcomes at national, state, school and individual levels, our main gripes with NAPLAN remain: the many weeks schools divert from regular curriculum to ‘teach to

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Accelerated Learning Trends for Schools

Dan Blore
17 June 2015
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Tags: accelerated learning, diagnostic, pre-testing, school, self-paced, vertical extesion

EduTech education congress has reinforced that ELC is far ahead of education trends for engaging our students effectively and efficiently in relevant accelerated learning. Ideas of personalised and accelerated learning that have been at the core of ELC since its inception were presented in professional development seminars on Making Learning Relevant in the 21st Century

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Raising an Optimistic Child

Leo Blore
06 May 2015
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Tags: mistakes, optimism, responsibility

One of the greatest expectations of educators at ELC is that they do not merely help with a direct point of need without imparting a deeper lesson; in other words, we do not ‘spoon feed’ or ‘hold a student’s hand every step of the way’ so that they might find themselves at the end of

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