After teaching for seven years in a primary school – some would say I did a crazy thing. I went back to university.
Now, before you wonder why a teacher – who already has a degree and a job would go back to ...
This story appeared in the November 2017 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
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Authored by several internationally recognised trauma-informed researchers from here and overeseas, a new book argues that traditional approaches to discipline and behaviour management are often ill-suited to the reality many students face today.
A whole-school approach to wellbeing that has been producing phenomenal results in helping teachers better identify and support students and creating referral pathways to local mental health services, will be rolled out to every public primary sch...
Before trialling a tech-free approach in her Year 12 Legal Studies classroom, Nicole Horton was seeing fractured attention, a sea of glazed over faces and eyes fixated on screens – the digital distraction was real, she says.
Police and youth advocates are querying whether new state laws that will see children as young as 10 fitted with ankle bracelets are workable.
Literacy and the explicit teaching of writing skills ought to be a focus of all PDHPE teachers’ practice and not left solely to English departments to handle, a leading educator has said.
A Melbourne university has received a $2.5 million gift to “use its foundations in evidence-based learning to help address Australia’s mathematics crisis”.
A new tool for identifying children at risk of speech disorders has been developed by Melbourne researchers, reducing unnecessary treatment for common speech errors that often resolve on their own.
Primary school children given the chance to teach their younger peers are showing remarkable improvements in their confidence, class work and mental health.
Inequitable induction arrangements for substitute teachers come at a professional, emotional and career development cost, new research has flagged.
High-ability students can expect to be thoroughly challenged in their learning when they come to Heathmont East Primary School.
