This year’s Education Week theme is 'Every student, every voice'. This week is the perfect time to step back and reflect on how we can help strengthen our pupils’ voices, and consider why it’s so critical to do so. Helping ...
More »Negotiating the ‘range of the strange’: what we can learn from the US middle school system
Students moving from primary classrooms to a secondary timetable suffer from a kind of culture shock when their expectations of school are radically challenged by the pace and siloed structures of faculty education. Students may find school overwhelming, disorienting and ...
More »Achieving school-wide change through collaboration
There are some teachers who seem to be born to the role, such is their passion, energy and enthusiasm for the profession and commitment to the education needs and emotional wellbeing of their students. Within moments of meeting Chantel Mirzai, ...
More »Pasi Sahlberg urges us to “let the children play”
Professor Pasi Sahlberg began his presentation at EduTECH 2019 by asking the rhetorical question "what do you do with a sick child?" Taking them to the doctor was the obvious reply. "So you can be very confident that whatever the ...
More »Teachers need to find their voice: lessons from EduTECH 2019
One skill Australian educators need to give more attention to is better communicating the strengths and wisdom of their profession to the wider community. That’s the view of Professor Pasi Sahlberg, speaking at a roundtable discussion on the content versus ...
More »The reason why children can’t hear may surprise you
Look, Listen and Learn is an old saying that still holds true today. And while school entry sight tests are now common practice, the message to have children’s hearing checked before they start school, for the most part, falls on ...
More »Great expectations: helping students weighed down by the pressure to succeed
Final year school students are rushing towards an imaginary finishing line burdened by societal expectations about their future, leading to a state of anxiety that impairs academic performance and negatively affects decision-making. That’s the view of University of the Sunshine Coast ...
More »Effective cybersecurity requires a school-wide effort
With large quantities of data and sensitive information stored and shared digitally by schools, it’s little wonder they have become targets for hackers. The need to keep sensitive data secure, and protect students while they engage with wireless networks and ...
More »Forum aims to find ways to improve the status of teachers
It could be argued that the common impression of teachers and their profession is not as positive as it should be. Factors like the public’s perception of time spent on holidays, and media reporting of industrial action, pay disputes, stress ...
More »Screen time can delay young kids’ development: study
Too much time spent watching TV and playing computer games can hold back the development of young children, new research suggests. A study of 2400 Canadian children found more screen time was linked to lower scores in 'milestone' tests of ...
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