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Read MoreWhat if you could unlock the secrets to fluency instruction in literacy, and transform your students into confident and skilled readers? Join us as we delve into this crucial topic with Nathaniel Swain, Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in Australia, who shares his expertise on the three components of fluency: speed, accuracy, and prosody.
Read MoreIn Season 3 | Episode 15 | We will be unpacking and discussing: How do teachers implement a structured literacy approach in the upper grades?
Read MoreIn Season 3 | Episode 8 | We will be unpacking and discussing: How do we incorporate pedagogy that reflects the Science of Learning?
Read More…This is a wide ranging discussion that moves from what makes good writing, to The Writing Revolution, to the Write to Learn resources that Nathaniel has created with the Brandon Park Primary team. We also have a bit of fun playing around with literacy and hopefully model within this podcast the kind of fun that can be had by students too, in this space. It was a real pleasure to have Nathaniel on and I can’t wait to see the impact that Nathaniel continues to have in the coming years and decades in his new role as a teacher educator, in addition to through his wide variety of other exciting projects in the education space…
Read MoreIn 2023, NAPLAN was moved from May to March, shifted entirely online, and introduced new proficiency standards to provide earlier insights into student learning. These changes raised concerns about student stress and equity. While not commenting directly on NAPLAN, Dr. Nathaniel Swain advocates for evidence-based teaching and a knowledge-rich curriculum, aligning with the goal of using assessments to better support learning.
Read MoreToday we hear from Dr. Nathaniel Swain, a researcher and speech-language pathologist interested in language, literacy, and learning. In this episode we discuss the problems with balanced literacy … and where to go from here. This was such a fun conversation!
Read MoreIn this episode of Progressively Incorrect, I chat with Dr. Nathaniel Swain about the work he is doing with teachers and middle leaders to ensure that all students receive instruction that is informed by the science of learning.
This is one of those episodes that is jammed packed full of insights and interesting tidbits, including what Dr. Swain describes as the biological imperative we have as humans to learn from others. Instead of falling for the romance that is having students discover or teach themselves the bulk of the material, Dr. Swain talks about the need for teachers to, well, teach the material, and to teach it explicitly and efficiently using principles and findings from cognitive science. As someone who is thoroughly fascinated with the innovations coming out of international education systems, you will also hear me pick Dr. Swain’s brain about the progress being made in Australia to implement evidence-informed instruction and explicit teaching.
Listen to Nathaniel Swain, with host Emma Gentle, on ‘The Em Powered Podcast’ talk about his professional journey which led him down the path of the Science of Learning and his passion to make learning explicit and accessible for all learners.
Read MoreIs the size of your child's class the optimal size for learning? Are they being given the kind of homework evidence says is useful, if evidence says homework is useful at all?
These are the kinds of questions being asked by a national body set up to make sure Australian schools are using as much evidence-based practice as possible. Their first report is out now.
Read MoreListen to Nathaniel Swain, a former primary teacher turned education academic, who says students are coming to a ‘bottle-neck’ with their learning and we need to understand why this is the case.
Read More“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”
On six consecutive occasions , six powerful agents of change delivered a 75 minute live talk. Those talks were recorded.
Our first four talks were given by individual speakers, and our last two talks were a collaborative effort by Professor Pamela Snow and Dr Tanya Serry of La Trobe University.
In this online version, you will be able to see all the videos from the live events, you will have all the handouts and you will also be able to participate in quizzes and forums relating to the material.
Read MoreAt the recent Matthew Flinders Science of Learning Conference, Nathaniel Swain and Brendan Lee spoke about the challenge of retention and the power of retrieval. They reminded us that learning isn’t about what students are taught - it’s about what they can remember, retrieve and use.
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