education
I used to work as a teacher, and before that of course I was a student, and both experiences have made me passionate about education. I feel especially strongly about the need to resource public schools properly, pay for educational support staff to support the inclusion of students with special needs, teach humanities and languages, and ease up on all the “busywork” dumped on teachers that prevent them from designing the high-quality learning experiences they are trained to do.
Wiki
Posts
- : 💬 On Australia's Devaluing of Foreign Language Learning: Suffering from the pandemic and decades of government policy, many Australian universities are axing programs in …
- : 👩🏻🏫 On Teacher Workloads: Just read this article on teacher workloads (external link), and I had some things to say about it. While …
Links
- : 🦠 Link: “Teachers and Their Unions Are Demanding Truly Safe Schools Reopening — Not “Ignoring Science””
- : 🏫 Link: “Education Should Be About Building Democratic Citizens, Not Compliant Workers”
- : 💬 Link: “Is your kid studying a second language at school? How much they learn will depend on where you live”
- : 💀 Link: “Gwen C. Katz on Twitter”
- : 👩🏻🏫 Link: “NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet wants to shake up school hours — this is what it could look like”
- : 🏫 Link: “No to the Cane”
- : 🏫 Link: “Investigation reveals tracking by EdTech of millions of Australian school students during COVID lockdowns”
- : 🏫 Link: “The Stepney schoolchildren’s strike, 1971”
- : 🏫 Link: “Mindfulness in schools does not improve mental health, study finds”
- : 🏫 Link: “The push and pull of cheating at university: ‘No one knows what cheating is any more’”
Interactions
- : ❤️ Like of: “Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?” by Ian Welsh
- : ❤️ Like of: “Do we really need private schools?” by Ben Werdmüller
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.