Professional Educator Volume 4 Number 1 March 2005

Published: 1 Mar 05

WELCOME TO PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR FOR 2005

You’ll notice some changes in the following pages. Australia’s premier quarterly education magazine, now published for the Australian College of Educators (ACE) by the Australian Council for Educational Research, is bigger and brighter, yet still makes the link between educational research and practice.

Still edited by Dr Steve Holden, winner of the Australian Council of Deans of Education Print Media Best Feature highly commended award for 2004, Professional Educator brings together the educational research and practice of all educators across all systems, addressing teaching and learning from Kindergarten to university as well as policy and its effects ‘on the ground.’ What does the research say and how can it be applied in the classroom? Find out by reading Professional Educator .

If you’re reading it you’re one of the many professional educators at the heart of Australian education.

EDITORIAL and LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

OPINION

Quality teaching and ‘The Literacy Debate’

TEACHING AND LEARNING

Health and Physical education
Making thinking visible

RESEARCH – Against the grade

In search of continuity in schooling and learning
Geoff Masters considers some of the reasons why we should move beyond a grade-by-grade assembly-line model of schooling, not least to improve learning.

INTERVIEW – Means and ends

Steve Holden spoke with Merrilyn Goos, winner of the Social Sciences category of the Australian Awards for University Teaching for 2004, about the means and ends of excellent teaching.

INNOVATION

The studio scenario
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ISSUES – Mobile learning

Mobile phones play an indispensable role in the everyday lives of consumers. Gerard Goggin looks at how the technology might affect education.