For any teachers yet to lodge their tax returns, the media face of tax accountancy firm H&R Block and former Australian Taxation Office senior director Mark Chapman has offered his top tax tips. Chapman explained when teachers work from home ...
More »Open-ended apps best for tablets, teacher says
If tablet technology is going to be used in the classroom, open-ended apps should be employed, to prevent tablets from becoming “21st century shut-up sheets”, one teacher has advised. Grant Jones, a technology teacher at St Marys Public School in Sydney’s ...
More »Opinion: Formal schooling can wait
Over recent decades, in many countries across the world, there has been increasing concern about the disparity in life expectations between children born into relative affluence and those born into more disadvantaged circumstances. This is true between nations, of course, ...
More »Zero happiness: Indigenous teens down on life in survey
A new report from Mission Australia shows 10 per cent of Indigenous young men aged 15 to 19, and 5 per cent of Indigenous women of this age, rate their happiness as 0 out of 10. Only 1 per cent of ...
More »National Child Protection Week champions community action
It takes a community – the modern-day village – to keep a child safe. That’s the key message of this year’s annual National Child Protection Week, which began on Sunday. The event is organised by the National Association for Prevention ...
More »4 tips for building professional learning networks
A professional learning network (PLN) – it’s something teachers are told about at conferences. It consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from. In PLNs, people connect with other people for the specific purpose of learning ...
More »Nature Research simplifies science on new website
Nature Research, the publishing group behind the prestigious scientific journal Nature, has launched a website to make complex science accessible to the general public. The npj Science of Learning Community website was launched in collaboration with the University of Queensland. It aims to make ...
More »Don’t grade Genius Hour, teacher says
Genius Hour is becoming a trend in schools in Australia and globally. And one teacher has warned teachers shouldn’t tell the students they will assess it, and shouldn't mark it via a rubric. Otherwise, they'll just get slide show presentations. And if ...
More »Herald Sun to launch news website for children
News Corp’s Herald Sun newspaper will launch its Kids News website next year, with the goal of delivering age-appropriate information to school children – helping teachers discuss current affairs in the classroom. The website will be edited by Karina Grift, the Herald Sun’s education editor. ...
More »Working With Children Checks: a tale of two states
It is the best of times and the worst of times for Working With Children Checks (WWCCs). South Australia is leading the other states and territories by example. A plan to revamp SA's WWCCs by establishing portable checks valid for ...
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