As students return to the classroom on Friday, there are calls for greater investment in improving the quality of home learning in case we have to do it again
Tutors vital in Victoriaâs COVID catchup
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Theyâre in four in five Victorian schools and they have a critical job: to help students catch up from almost two terms of remote learning during COVID.
They are tutors, about 5700 of them across the state. Education Minister James Merlino says small-group tutoring is the âmost critical thingâ the government is doing in schools this year.
Meadowglen Primary School learning specialists Jenny Devlin and Caroline Gorrell will help students catch up from COVID shutdowns.
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A revised Australian curriculum would give greater weight to the nationâs diversity and to First Nations culture, but less emphasis on âChristian heritageâ in the study of civics and citizenship.
Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority chief executive David de Carvalho says English, maths and science will have primacy of place in the revamped curriculum.
Credit: Janie Barrett
A review has found the existing curriculum did not include enough âtruth tellingâ about the experience of First Nations Australians since European settlement, and put too much emphasis on the period before contact with Europeans.
One of the authors of a 2014 review of the curriculum criticised the focus on diversity, arguing it denied the dominant Western liberal character of Australian life.