This story appeared in the April 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
A free online mental health platform, co-designed by young people, has been launched to tackle the ongoing children’s mental health crisis.
It’s widely known that long-term recreational exercise has a range of benefits for kids’ physical and mental health, not just while they’re young, but also down the track well into their adulthood.
A popular teaching tactic used to hone students’ focus has amounted ‘insufficient evidence’ to show it actually boosts learning, two researchers have concluded.
April is Autism Awareness Month in Australia, so this is a great time as a school community to think, talk and plan what you can do to support students and families who are touched by autism.
Premier Jacinta Allan has asked South Barwon MP Darren Cheeseman to resign from the Parliamentary Labor Party after further allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards staff emerged yesterday, and the member has complied with immediate effect.
You don’t need to look hard right now to see concerns about Aotearoa New Zealand’s education system.
A new partnership between University of Auckland and 12 local schools is aiming to boost Māori and Pacific University Entrance pass rates and further study success.
Eating an unhealthy breakfast might be just as harmful to students’ educational outcomes as skipping the morning meal entirely, new research has found.
An innovative new program from Charles Darwin University endeavouring to encourage middle achievers to consider STEM-related courses, is aiming to benefit not only Year 11 and 12 students, but also their slightly older postgrad university peers.
A $900,000 investment will see Victorian students learn about menstrual health and pelvic pain from next year, with free sessions set to be delivered across Years 5 to 10.