Different country, but same concerns ?

Via Twitter, a link to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, not a paper that I usually read...

It's about providing an environment where teachers feel able to develop professionally by trying "new" things and how that connections with the leadership in the school

Leanne Faraday-Brash,an organisational psychologist is quoted:

"Part of leadership is the permission to stick your neck out, to experiment, to rattle the cage and challenge the status quo."

"Teachers aren't necessarily going to do that in an environment that is punitive, collegiate or overly hierarchical."

For Professor Stephen Dinham, it comes back to recognising the whole student.

"The fundamental thing in highly successful schools at all levels is they have a central focus on every student as a learner and as a person," he says.

"Good teaching and good schools are the best chance we've got to open up opportunity - low expectations condemn people to underachievement."

The Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has released a draft consultation paper on the new National Curriculum for Geography, which makes fascinating reading, particularly the connections with the curriculum that we have here.

What have the Australians included that we haven't and vice versa...

We seem to agree on some things though...

A PDF download, is available from the ACARA site.

Good to see that the GA's manifesto for geography "a different view" appears in the references section...