Special school fishing elective getting plenty of bites

Chelsea Channing

By Chelsea Channing
Published April 17, 2018

If you were to check your student’s desk on a Friday afternoon to find a note saying ‘gone fishing’, there would normally be cause for concern.

But at Echuca Specialist School in rural Victoria, this simply means there is some authentic learning going on.

Lucas Denton ...

This story appeared in the April 2018 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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