Schools Excursion Incursion & Camp Guide 2024

Teaching students to be fluent, articulate and confident in using language to express themselves is critical in the fight to combat domestic violence and abuse, school principal and well-known author John Marsden says.

A jumping castle was pegged to the ground by only half its anchor points when a sudden “mini tornado” tossed it in the air, killing six children, a court has been told.

Australian teachers’ behaviour management skills are being hampered by hazy professional standards and unhelpful ideas about ‘student voice’ spread by universities, an expert has said.

Lodged on the staffroom wall at Mount Hutton Public School are the words “every child matters every day”.

Schools that appoint a principal internally risk destabilising teacher morale in a big way, pioneering Australian research has found.

As Salman Khan sees it, children most often struggle to progress at school, not because the world lacks incredible teachers, but because by design the mass education model underpinning our schooling system allows learning gaps to flourish.

Big international names in structured literacy will touch down in New Zealand this month to share their knowledge with Kiwi educators.

When did teachers become the catch-all for society’s problems?

Education departments and teacher unions are at it again: engaging in their feisty word play over whether there’s a teacher shortage or not and its extent.

Madeleine Collins isn’t just a science teacher, she’s a self-confessed science nerd, and her enchantment with the subject is contagious.

The stereotypes surrounding gender and STEM in New Zealand, and much of the Western world, can be potent.

The Centre for Brain Research was buzzing with excitement this month, when 173 Year 11 students descended on Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland to compete in the annual Brain Bee neuroscience challenge.