This story appeared in the November 2013 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
Teachers and education support staff at Overnewton Anglican Community College in Melbourne’s north west will stop work on Thursday as their dispute over wages and workloads escalates.
Advocates are calling for sexually diverse students to have stronger legal protections at schools, after findings from a youth suicide investigation identified key risk factors.
A man accused of verbally abusing a young Muslim schoolgirl on a bus will face court.
Catholic Schools Maitland Newcastle continues to come under fire from literacy and education bodies nationwide over its plan to cut teacher-librarian positions in 58 schools across the Diocese.
‘Every minute matters’ is the mantra that drives one award-winning educator in her mission to hand incarcerated youth the rigorous learning experience they need to chart a better life course.
Australian principals have developed an anxious hyper-vigilance around their communication with parents, as cyberbullying and threats of legal action over various grievances reshape their working lives – and it comes with a significant emotional t...
Australia’s education reset must focus on how the brain actually learns – not simply how much technology is used in classrooms, according to a leading educational neuroscientist.
“They’ll speak to girls, women teachers differently than certain male teachers,” a female primary school teacher tells her peers.
Students will be forced back to pen and paper as the NSW Government moves to cap daily screen time to as little as 15 minutes against a backdrop of falling test scores.
Hundreds have farewelled two young family members killed in a horror car crash that injured six others, as police seek dashcam footage to piece together what led to the rollover.
