Sweeping changes to NSW’s high school history course will see Holocaust education made mandatory for the first time, following concerns from Jewish groups that students were graduating with little or no knowledge of the horrors of World War II. Under the new Year ...

The close interaction between educators and students means they may notice changes in behavior, appearance, mood, or performance in students before others do. While educators are professionally equipped to provide academic guidance, they may not always feel skilled at facilitating ...

Resources promised by the federal government and the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) to manage classroom disruptions have been released. The Classroom Management Professional Learning Resources project is a response to research that found one in three Australian teachers are losing teaching ...

Adolescence is often characterised as a time of “storm and stress”. Young people are dealing with physical and cognitive changes and, as they move from childhood, can become increasingly distant from the adults in their lives. In academic terms, this ...

School refusal is a growing concern in Australia, characterised by a student’s emotional distress at attending school. What are its three stages and how can teachers identify them? Government estimates suggest that between one per cent to five per cent ...

Haley Tancredi, Queensland University of Technology; Callula Killingly, Queensland University of Technology, and Linda J. Graham, Queensland University of Technology About four students in every classroom will have a language or attention disorder. While some of these students will have ...

Looking for some simple and fun wellbeing activities for primary school students? Student wellbeing program provider Peer Support Australia created these free worksheets for teachers to use with their primary school students in class. A coping tools checklist for primary ...

Researchers from Monash University have surveyed 1000 primary and secondary teachers across the country and their results reveal what health and wellbeing measures educators consider essential at work. Its findings are a bid to contribute towards solving the teacher shortage ...

According to the Australian Psychology Society, the average wait time to see a school psychologist in Tasmania in 2023 was 168 days, with only one full-time psychologist available per 801 students. In an effort to address the gap between supply ...

An organisation that claims they have the answers to tackling student wellbeing issues and mental health challenges in schools is calling on the government to implement a nation-wide rollout of its strategies. Schools Plus partners with predominantly low-SES schools each ...