The quality of primary education in Australia has been challenged for decades by lack of time, lack of quality resources, lack of a whole-school approach or consistent leadership, and insufficient professional development. Learn how MAPPEN aligns with recommendations made by the October 2022 Grattan Institute report: Ending the lesson lottery: how to improve curriculum planning in schools.

We hope everyone got a good deal of rest over the holiday period - we’ve been hard at work over the break on a few updates to share.

COVID has revived pedagogical discourse on the value of explicit teaching - here’s our take.

Our approach and offering has evolved since 2015, so we wanted to refresh our branding in line with our philosophy and unique points of difference!

This new tool enables teachers to assess student achievement, make on-balance judgements when writing student reports and differentiate future learning.

A Question-based Investigation (QBI) is a new model for inquiry and product creation for primary-aged students developed by the MAPPEN team.

We hope you’ve had a well-deserved break! Here’s some handy tips to get started with - or reset - your MAPPEN curriculum this year.

The high impact teaching strategies (HITS) are 10 instructional practices researched by by John Hattie and Robert Marzano, that reliably increase student learning when they're applied - here’s how they’re embedded in MAPPEN.

How do we teach the competencies required for occupations our students might have in the future, that haven’t yet been invented? There are many different approaches to review.

Read about how MAPPEN aligns with the Amplify framework (Victorian Department of Education and Training) and the push to ensure that students around Australia have agency in their learning.

Some background information and summary of findings from the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools, and how MAPPEN aligns with recommendations.

One in five new teachers are leaving teaching within five years. This is a sad statistic, but unfortunately one that doesn’t surprise me.

As our students move through school, it is important that they learn how to work well with others. A good teacher is opportunistic when it comes to teaching these skills.

NPDL is a global partnership aiming to implement deep learning goals across whole education systems that are enabled by new pedagogies and accelerated by technology.

If all teachers had a deeper understanding of what integrated curriculum really is, it would greatly improve teaching practice and student engagement.

Giving and getting effective feedback from other teachers in your school is one of the best ways of improving your teaching - but it can also be complex and stressful.

‘Teaching without telling’ literally means instructing without speaking. A well organised immersion into your lesson will mean that the instructions may take only a few moments.

As you prepare for a lesson, think of arranging a classroom in such a way that your students will immediately know what they have to do, without you saying a word.

This is a simple one, but wow does it make a difference. Using the correct amount of wait time in your class will greatly improve student engagement in class conversations.

Focusing on your students as individuals, improving teacher student relationships and working on differentiating their experiences is what teaching is all about.