Progressive Achievement Test workshops
14/5/2013 • (0)
ACER invites you to attend professional development on ACER’s Progressive Assessment Test in Reading (PAT-R) (full-day and half-day sessions) and Progressive Assessment Test in Mathematics (PATMaths) (full-day session only). Session 1 Understanding Progressive Achievement Tests Presenter: Prue Anderson, Senior Research Fellow, ACER Full-day and half-day workshops, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide This session will focus on [...]
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Book Review: My Friend with Autism (0)
20/6/2013 •
My Friend with Autism Enhanced Edition (with CD) By Beverly Bishop Future Horizons 2011 Published in Totline: National Playgroup Magazine Awareness and acceptance of children on the Autism Spectrum is the aim of this simply illustrated book. It outlines some of the typical characteristics of children with autism, such as their difficulty in communicating and [...]
Book Review: Making Sense of Asperger’s (0)
20/6/2013 •
Making Sense of Asperger’s: A story for children By Debra Ende; Illustrated by Bettina Guthridge ACER Press 2011 Published in Totline: National Playgroup Magazine We are all different and just as some people are tall and some people are short, some people like change and some do not. This is just one of the differences [...]
Book Review: What Teachers Need to Know About Social and Emotional Development (0)
19/6/2013 •
What Teachers Need to Know About Social and Emotional Development By Ros Leyden and Erin Shale ACER 2012 Reviewed by Giles Barrow Published in Pastoral Care in Education This book does precisely what it says on the cover; provides an introduction for teachers to the theme of social and emotional development. The style is very [...]
New book supports physically active children (0)
04/6/2013 •
As levels of physical activity decline and sedentary behaviours increase,* more parents are turning to organised sport as a means to involve their children in physical activity.§ And as the number of children involved in organised sport increases, more parents are asking key questions of sports coaches. At what age should children specialise in a [...]
