How are some children in the outback taught?

Answer 1

Each Australian state operates a correspondence school for families living in remote areas. They do the work at home and send it in to the school. Similar to being home-schooled, but not quite. They also operate "schools of the air". These schools allow the students to communicate with the teachers by two-way radio. More commonly these days, wireless broadband is being utilized to both teach lessons and for the students to send in work.

Frequently, children are sent to boarding schools in the capital cities once they reach the secondary school years - Grade 8 through to 12.

See the link below to learn about the Alice Springs School of the Air in the heart of Australia. There are several Schools of the Air spread throughout the outback in regional centers

Answer 2

The outback covers a vast region of Australia, with a very small population. many children who live on the cattle or sheep stations in the outback are not close enough to schools to attend. A common way for these children to be taught is the School of the Air, also known as Distance Education. The teachers at these schools communicate with the students directly via two-way radio.

Answer 3

They go to a small room and there are eight rows. Each row had one grade. The school was made out of wooden logs. If the kids were misbehaving the teacher whacked them with a wooden stick. Sometimes they got kicked out of school for life.

Answer 4

In the country, there are buses that will come and pick the children up and take them to school, and then back home again. In remote areas they are home-schooled. They either get taught by their parents, or over the phone/internet by a teacher, and submit their work in the mail or in emails. They are able to interact with other children over the internet.

Answer 5

Children in remote areas of Australia are schooled via the School of the Air or, as it is now called in many places, School of Distance Education.

Classes are conducted via shortwave radio with each student having direct contact with a teacher in a major inland town such as Broken Hill or Alice Springs. Where once children relied on mail services to deliver their assignments, now Internet services enable quicker and more reliable delivery.

The concept of the School of the Air was first proposed in 1944 by Adelaide Miethke, a member of the Council of the Flying Doctor service of SA, who suggested using two way radio to give educational talks to children in the Outback. Once the necessary communications equipment was acquired six years later, the trial program began, with teachers from Alice Springs volunteering to present lessons. Initially lessons were conducted as a one way affair, but soon a question and answer time was added to the end of each broadcast. The following year, 8 June 1951, saw the official opening of the School of the Air at the Flying Doctor base. The Alice Springs School of the Air currently caters for about 140 students spread over an area of 1,000,000 square kilometres.

Answer 6

They're educated with two-way radios, so the kid and teacher can discuss things since there are no "schools". For assignments, the teacher makes them, mails them to the student, the student completes it, mails it back, and the teacher and student have a discussion.

Answer 7

Go to school, homeschool or connect to a teacher with a computer.