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School news / Three-in-four disabled students bullied or excluded - and it’s getting worse: new study

Exclusion and bullying of students with disability is on the rise in Australia’s schools, with three in four impacted in 2024, a new survey has revealed.

Opinion / The diet matters: Netflix's Adolescence a disturbing case study for schools

Netflix’s new hit Adolescence isn’t an easy watch – and perhaps that’s precisely why every educator should check it out.

Community / Bio-acoustics and citizen science: how secondary schools can optimise learning on Earth Day

With Earth Day just around the corner, lots of schools are thinking and planning how to get their students more involved in sustainability and conservation.

School news / ‘We have to step in’: Costello calls for better gambling education in schools

It is a well known fact that Australians gamble more than any other nation on the planet. What’s less well known is that one in three Aussie kids aged between 12 and 17 gamble.

School news / Bring beach bivalve and moth larvae trails into the maths classroom, researchers urge

Two academics are urging teachers to draw upon ‘visual cues’ found in nature to teach mathematical concepts and patterns to students, such as the intricate trails left by moth larvae and those various beach-dwelling organisms etch into the sand.

Opinion / No parent pushback, staff meetings or student reports: the profession's wondrous days of yore

Buckminster Fuller predicted in 1960 that human knowledge doubled approximately every century. Today, some futurologists postulate that human knowledge doubles every 12 months and, in some domains, every 12 hours.

School news / Blueprint to weed out ‘faddish’ maths instruction blasts govts for inaction, mixed advice

A bold blueprint to lift Australian primary students’ maths achievement and align all teachers’ instruction with the evidence about what works best has been unveiled by the Grattan Institute.

Opinion / Lessons from a primary school that cracked the maths code

On a cold Thursday morning last winter, I stood at the back of a Year 5 class at Bentleigh West Primary School, in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs, as a maths lesson began.

School news / Welcome cultural exchange promotes friendship, harmony and shared traditions

Students from different cultural and religious backgrounds have recently joined in a collaborative event to promote unity, friendship, and understanding through the simple yet powerful act of baking bread.

School news / The ‘nonsense’ learning styles myth has made a huge comeback: Hattie

The widely discredited learning styles myth has made a grand comeback in education research and teaching training circles across the world, new research led by Professor John Hattie has revealed.

School news / Three-in-four disabled students bullied or excluded - and it’s getting worse: new study

Exclusion and bullying of students with disability is on the rise in Australia’s schools, with three in four impacted in 2024, a new survey has revealed.

Opinion / The diet matters: Netflix's Adolescence a disturbing case study for schools

Netflix’s new hit Adolescence isn’t an easy watch – and perhaps that’s precisely why every educator should check it out.

Community / Bio-acoustics and citizen science: how secondary schools can optimise learning on Earth Day

With Earth Day just around the corner, lots of schools are thinking and planning how to get their students more involved in sustainability and conservation.

School news / ‘We have to step in’: Costello calls for better gambling education in schools

It is a well known fact that Australians gamble more than any other nation on the planet. What’s less well known is that one in three Aussie kids aged between 12 and 17 gamble.

School news / Bring beach bivalve and moth larvae trails into the maths classroom, researchers urge

Two academics are urging teachers to draw upon ‘visual cues’ found in nature to teach mathematical concepts and patterns to students, such as the intricate trails left by moth larvae and those various beach-dwelling organisms etch into the sand.

Opinion / No parent pushback, staff meetings or student reports: the profession's wondrous days of yore

Buckminster Fuller predicted in 1960 that human knowledge doubled approximately every century. Today, some futurologists postulate that human knowledge doubles every 12 months and, in some domains, every 12 hours.

School news / Blueprint to weed out ‘faddish’ maths instruction blasts govts for inaction, mixed advice

A bold blueprint to lift Australian primary students’ maths achievement and align all teachers’ instruction with the evidence about what works best has been unveiled by the Grattan Institute.

Opinion / Lessons from a primary school that cracked the maths code

On a cold Thursday morning last winter, I stood at the back of a Year 5 class at Bentleigh West Primary School, in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs, as a maths lesson began.

School news / Welcome cultural exchange promotes friendship, harmony and shared traditions

Students from different cultural and religious backgrounds have recently joined in a collaborative event to promote unity, friendship, and understanding through the simple yet powerful act of baking bread.

School news / The ‘nonsense’ learning styles myth has made a huge comeback: Hattie

The widely discredited learning styles myth has made a grand comeback in education research and teaching training circles across the world, new research led by Professor John Hattie has revealed.

School news / Three-in-four disabled students bullied or excluded - and it’s getting worse: new study

Exclusion and bullying of students with disability is on the rise in Australia’s schools, with three in four impacted in 2024, a new survey has revealed.

Opinion / The diet matters: Netflix's Adolescence a disturbing case study for schools

Netflix’s new hit Adolescence isn’t an easy watch – and perhaps that’s precisely why every educator should check it out.

Give teachers a (toilet) break

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