This story appeared in the February 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
Thousands of teachers from more than 80 public schools across Western Australia stopped work on Tuesday morning, resulting in 22 schools closing fully and 62 remaining partially open.
Assessment has always been a critical aspect of the teaching and learning cycle with ideas around the frequency and best forms of assessment explored from a range of educational perspectives.
A string of academics have come out in force to warn against a push by the NSW Department of Education for explicit teaching across all schools.
Young children living with disability might sometimes struggle to access the full richness of popular stories – but a thriving incursion program is changing the literary game in WA special schools.
Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth has announced the release of a suite of best-practice resources developed by Autism CRC.
The Federal Government will move to get religious discrimination laws passed in the middle of the year, with Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus saying the issue can’t be dragged out.
A push for stricter knife laws that will create fresh criminal offences for parents whose kids have been caught with weapons has been slammed as out of touch and damaging to families.
The Federal and Queensland Governments are jointly funding a $1.88 million pilot program in sunshine state public schools in an effort to reduce teacher workloads.
The Government has handed down its response to the Senate inquiry into Australia’s growing crisis of school refusal, and some say it’s left families impacted by the problem without much hope.
The UK’s ‘Behaviour Tsar’ Tom Bennett has taken aim at ‘armchair voyeurs’ who boldly advocate for no suspensions or expulsions in primary schools.
