I am working in Orbost Victoria over the next couple of days with parents and teachers. Have just returned from Horsham. Up to ACT in the middle of the week and up to Sydney and Brisbane next week. I am always so impressed and humbled by the level of committment and energy that so many teachers we work with demonstrate. The work they do with children across early childhood and the primary years helps me to feel there is great hope and promise for children and their future.
If only Julia Gillard would stop taking advice from an American economist on how to best have an education revolution. Studies across the world indicate that meaningul teaching and learning is much more than a test in grade 3 or grade 5.!!!