This story appeared in the March 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
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.
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.
Western Australia’s public primary and high school teachers are poised to take strike action next week over their pay and work conditions.
Imagine walking into a classroom and the incessant hum of multiple conversations hits you like a wave, it’s overwhelming.