NSW teachers to embrace ‘step by step’ explicit instruction method amid major syllabus shake-up
by Caitlin Cassidy from World news | The Guardian on (#6PEAM)
State becomes first to mandate methodology in overhaul educators hope will allow disabled and disadvantaged students catch up to their peers
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The New South Wales curriculum has had its biggest shakeup in five decades with better connections between subjects, more detailed concepts and skills, and a move away from the student-led approach to learning towards explicit instruction".
On Wednesday, new K-6 syllabuses for health, creative arts, human society and its environment, and science were released to teachers, with updated maths and English syllabuses in classrooms from this year.
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