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In trying to teach self-management to young students who had been identified as being impulsive and unruly, Donald Meichenbaum found he was able to help these students manage and control their impulsive behaviours when he applied the strategy of self-talk. ...

Health experts say there is light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel as Australia recorded its lowest daily rise in new infections in over three months. There were 16 new infections reported on Monday – 11 in Victoria, four ...

Bullying hurts children more if it comes from a friend, and they're less likely to report it, says a new study. Flinders University researchers found that victims identify the pain of relational bullying from best friends as being especially harmful ...

Australia's top universities are shaking their heads at the federal government's proposed reforms, saying they will lead to lower quality education. Group of Eight chair Margaret Gardner says the changes need "significant amendments". "We would have preferred a longer and ...

Libraries are dying – and that means the role of the teacher librarian (TL) is more important than ever. Dr Kasey Garrison, a senior lecturer in the Charles Sturt University School of Information Studies, said as broader society ponders the ...

Green time is better than screen time when it comes to a student's mental health and academic achievement. That was the key finding from a University of Adelaide review of 186 studies from around the world. Time spent watching TV, ...

Olivia Sharpe, one of the cast members of docu-series Love on the Spectrum, told audiences that it was difficult being a woman on the autism spectrum due to the lack of gendered diagnostic criteria – and clinical psychologist Vicki Bitsika ...

School suspension times will be halved for most students in NSW under a draft strategy released today. The overhaul would reduce the maximum period of suspension for Years 3 to 12 students from 20 days to 10 and mean that ...

To improve dementia understanding, Australia needs to invest in the next generation. UniSA’s Dr Ashleigh Smith, a cognitive ageing expert, said this is because children are the nation’s future leaders, local shop keepers, bankers and neighbours. “Children generally don’t know ...

Everywhere I go I ask school leadership teams whether they are aware of the highest drivers of student achievement. The answers are usually varied, and even though most educators identify that the teacher/student relationship is important, what they sometimes don’t ...