From Pivot’s Pencil
Transforming schools equitably: it’s now or never
No-one could have foreseen the significant impact that the global pandemic COVID-19 would have on the world. We went from having 20,000 home learners to having more than four million, with an immediate need to adapt an education system that relies heavily on...
Navigating Isolation with your Students
My name is Wren Gillett. I am a first-year university student and student voice advocate. I myself, am experiencing first hand the foreign world of remote learning. I haven’t even had a class on Campus yet, so everything about this transition has been a major learning...
The State of Education – The impact of COVID-19 on Distance Teaching
MEDIA RELEASE21 April 2020 Major Australian/New Zealand Teacher Survey:Educator perspectives on the impact of a rapid shift to distance and online teachingand learning Education insights firm, Pivot Professional Learning, in collaboration with Education Perfect...
Strategies for Teaching Maths Remotely
Set tasks that are easy to start In a remote learning environment, students don’t have you immediately available to provide support and may find it difficult to ask for help from their family members. You can make it easier for students to get started with their maths...
Teaching Strategies from a Distance Learning Expert
Today, Pivot founder and Director Cleo Westhorpe interviews Narelle Carlon, Online Teaching and Learning Project Office at Western Australia's School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE). Tell us a little bit about yourself. How long you've been at SIDE? I’ve...
Supporting student neurodiversity in remote learning environments
As many schools, teachers and students prepare for a remote learning environment, it is worth giving consideration to the neurodiversity of the learners we are engaging with. There are a number of things you can do to retain the quality teaching and learning that...
Love in the time of COVID
“[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.” Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera As we hear more about the spread of coronavirus, many of us are experiencing high levels of anxiety and...
Paper Launch: New research identifies key characteristics of great maths teachers
A crisis-level shortage of qualified maths teachers, students’ shrinking confidence and interest in maths, and the growing importance of maths skills to the economy (AMSI 2019) mean that more than ever, Australia needs to identify characteristics of top teachers to...
Great teaching on Radio National
Pivot's Director of Research recently joined a panel on ABC’s Life Matters program, to ‘sort fact and fiction on the teaching profession’ with the principal of Doveton College and Griffith University Dean of Education, Professor Donna Pendergast. Bronwyn spoke...
Nurturing the entrepreneurial skills of students
The Mitchell Institute at Victoria University has been collaborating with about 20 secondary schools in New South Wales and Victoria on a program that focusses on entrepreneurial learning. Paradigm Shifters, based on the work of international education expert...
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Classroom behaviour management
Dec 1, 2017
Classroom behaviour management What is classroom behaviour? The are various types of challenging behaviour in the classroom, from low-level disruptions such as talking out of turn and not following directions, to more anti-social behaviours such as…
The role of evaluation and reflection in teaching and school improvement
Oct 1, 2017
Expectations of teachers and schools are changing rapidly. This is being driven by a range of factors including our growing understanding of the future of society and workplace that today’s children will face when they finish formal schooling. As the OECD…
Professional Learning Communities
Jul 1, 2017
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have become a hot topic lately as building in-school capacity is increasingly viewed as a major lever for improving student outcomes. PLCs have been found to contribute to instructional improvement of teachers,1…
Making the case for reform of Australia’s education system – and Pivot!
Apr 25, 2016
A new report by PwC argues for ‘constructive, concrete reform’ of Australia’s education system to prepare students for changing workforce demands – particularly in STEM subject areas.1 The PwC report recognises that good ideas and innovation for driving…