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Coping with test-driven education in early years
In this ‘Maggie moment’ Australian parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent shares her ...
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6 year old boy fidgety in school – 9 Things Q&A
Maggie responds to a participant question about helping a young boy who is fidgety in school. ...
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Getting it ‘just right’ with extra-curricular activities
I was asked this week to comment for a national current affairs TV program about ...
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Stop stealing childhood in the name of education
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie passionately shares her concerns about the ‘push down’ of formalised ...
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Helping Children who Struggle with School
This article was first published in Parenting Ideas magazine in November/December 2013. More and more in ...
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Why schools are failing our boys
Boys will be boys, they tell us, but how many of us actually take this ...
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Q&A webinar with parents – 3/02/2014
In this 1 hour recording of a live webinar Q&A conducted between Maggie and a ...
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Maggie Dent on how parents can help with positive change in schools
(Firstly, apologies for the quality of this handheld video… we did it on the run ...
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Hidden influences on student learning
Sometimes as teachers we scratch our head wondering why some students perform to their potential ...
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The Real Truth About Homework
There isn’t a shred of evidence to support the widely accepted assumption that homework yields ...
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Using Visualisation and Mental Rehearsal in the Classroom
When students turn up in your classroom they bring with them invisible inhibitors to learning. ...
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The post high-school hole
Maggie spoke with Karl Stefanovic from TODAY about the risks of young people falling into ...
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TODAY Show: Surviving Highschool
Maggie joins the TODAY show for some tips on how children and parents can prepare ...
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Hidden pressures facing adolescents
Maggie appeared on Channel 9’s TODAY to discuss how to better support our teenagers on ...
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Homework hell
Maggie’s views that homework does not improve children’s school performance and intrudes on family time ...