This story appeared in the April 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
Despite a growing undercurrent of demand for flexible school week arrangements and a range of possible benefits for teachers and families, four-day school weeks carry shortfalls for students and working parents, an education expert says.
A new study has revealed an alarming professional knowledge gap amongst Australian teachers, with a significant number backing debunked instructional myths and discredited ideas about how students learn best.
As financial education manager of the largest financial literacy program in Australia, Talk Money, I often find myself listening to the questions and conversations generated by our workshops. Recently these conversations have been dominated by two...
Demonstrations have again swept across France as teachers and parents took to the streets with high school pupils on the biggest day of what the prime minister described as the most violent student demonstrations in decades.
An ambitious university-led program is aiming to empower primary school students to respond to the environmental changes around them by teaching climate resilience.
An open letter calling on education ministers to release the unpublished findings of a taxpayer-funded review into AERO is gaining momentum.
A whole-school initiative designed to equip students, teachers and families with the knowledge, confidence and practical skills to champion inclusion through adaptive sport and practical challenges is literally ready to roll.
Former principal Jenny Cole had been ‘a frog in boiling water’ for some time before reaching her final straw.
Fewer than one in four homes across Greater Melbourne are connected to their local public school by a safe cycling route, a new study has found.
Picture a senior English classroom. A student is tasked with writing a persuasive speech about whether women’s sport should receive equal coverage to men’s sport.
