This story appeared in the February 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
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.
Give, eat, cook and serve are everyday English words. On TikTok, they’re doing something different.
Narelle Zanker’s heart has always belonged to her herd of dairy cows.
Conversations in staff rooms centring around shaming other teachers’ food choices, or avoiding eating if they haven’t exercised, or feeling guilt for eating ‘bad’ or ‘unhealthy’ foods, or talking about weight loss are commonplace these days.
The latest round of PISA headlines spout a harmful and false narrative about Australia’s schools, Laureate Professor Emeritus John Hattie has argued.
The latest OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results provide an important insight into Australian education, although they may not explain quite as much as some of the public debate suggests.
