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  Guidelines to cover ways to support and protect students. New guidelines are set to address sexual diversity in WA schools, under proposed plans to stamp out homophobic bullying. Guidelines for Supporting Sexual and Gender Diversity in Schools was put ...

Schools introducing contracts to combat abuse from parents. By Antonia Maiolo. Victorian parents will sign behaviour contracts to protect principals and teachers under a new policy aimed at cracking down on unruly mums and dads. The parent-principal agreement, asking parents ...

No matter where students go these days, the tools of learning go with them, and the transitions from place to place can be simple. By Fran Molloy. There’s a new buzzword making the rounds in education and technology conversations worldwide. ...

Maths anxiety is affecting the teaching and learning of the subject but there are ways to overcome it. By Dallas Bastian. “When would we ever use this in the real world?” It’s a question just about every mathematics teacher will ...

There are many active, fun, hands-on ways to teach the essential concepts to young learners. You can even make numbers beautiful. By Joseph Grotowski and Marty Ross. Charles Darwin famously described a mathematician as “a blind man in a dark ...

  More and more resources and learning tools connected with classes are moving online, and emerging teaching trends reflect the change. By Dallas Bastian. An increasing amount of learning is going online and the curriculum is following suit. Griffith University ...

Many Australian educational institutions are taking up cloud-based services. But everyone still isn’t on board. By Fran Molloy. Cloud storage is much safer than local storage, tech experts argue, so a recent decision by Swedish authorities that banned schools from ...

As the 2014 academic year commences, Education Review asks teachers, principals and key stakeholders to name the issues likely to dominate the landscape this year. By Cathy Wever. The Australian Curriculum Implementation of the National Curriculum remains a major issue ...

A champion of distance learning describes the benefits video technology can bring to classrooms around the world and in Australia – and explains just who has the most to gain from these innovations. By Antonia Maiolo. Marci Powell is global ...

Students across Australia will compete with classmates to be Principal for a Day. Students around the country will trade their classrooms for the principal’s office as part of Student Principal for a Day. Registrations are now open for the national ...