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Classroom Observation Strategies: choose your journey Classroom observation makes teaching and learning more visible. It encourages colleagues to collaborate to improve teacher practice and student learning. But which classroom observation strategy should you choose?

Inquiry skills and information literacy are embedded in the Australian Curriculum in the subject areas Science, History, Geography, Economics and Business (draft), Civics and Citizenship (draft, and in the general capabilities Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) .

Rapid change takes its toll on teachers and school leaders. All the more reason, says Robyn Collins, to address your own wellbeing, not least to ensure your longevity and sustainability in your challenging role.

It’s worth asking,

when was the last time you did something purely for yourself? When did you last ‘stop and smell the roses’?*

I guessed people's PINcodes and got them right!

Using the power of Social Media, I FREAKED PEOPLE OUT by making them think I knew personal information about them!

I guessed people's PINcodes and got them right!

I guessed people's PINcodes and got them right!

In the digital world, whether you're on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, there's a truism that's both uplifting and scary. "You are what you like."

Critical evaluation of information and data is a crucial element of information literacy and inquiry learning. It is a complex, higher order cognitive process, dependent on understanding the use of primary and secondary sources, the nature of knowledge and the construction of an argument supported by evidence. As such, it is highly discipline specific and contextual. Thus, it might be expected that different subject areas in the Australian Curriculum would treat critical evaluation differently. In this post, I present my analysis of critical evaluation of information and data in the Australian Curriculum in relation to: