The Oxford Australian 2020 Children’s Word of the Year (CWOTY) is ‘virus’, shining a light on how deeply the COVID-19 pandemic, remote learning and school closures have impacted students this year. To come to this decision, children’s language experts analysed ...
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Kids who lie: How schools are raising young people addicted to avoiding blame
Practice makes perfect, or so they tell us. And so, it astounds and troubles me to my core that we continue to raise kids in homes and schools where the art of lying is something that’s practiced so heavily that our ...
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An article written by ACER’s CEO Professor Geoff Masters has drawn attention to an issue relating to one of the common paradigms of school culture: the year-level school curriculum. As he states in his article, “the role of the curriculum ...
More »Animal Protection Education is the key to teaching critical thinking and responsible citizenship. Here’s why!
Your students are the next generation of judges, politicians, CEOs, policymakers, lawyers, journalists and artists. They’re the changemakers of tomorrow. As educators, you hope they’ll enter the adult world with the ability to consider, analyse and debate differing perspectives on thought-provoking and relevant topics while questioning for themselves what it ...
More »Three practical steps for school leaders and teams to help process 2020
This year has been nothing short of extraordinary for all Australian school leaders, teams and school communities. It has required an extraordinary level of resilience and energy. It probably comes as no surprise that staff wellbeing is one of the ...
More »New research on period pain among young women shows significant impacts on attendance and performance
A new study of 4,202 young Australian women has found that more than a third of respondents have recently missed a whole day of school or university due to period paid, while roughly half said their period pain had affected ...
More »20 years of PISA: Should Australia keep the test?
In a webinar marking 20 years of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing in Australia, the editor of the Australian Journal of Education (AJE), Dr Petra Lietz, asked a pertinent question: Why does Australia keep participating in the ...
More »Students using Responsibility Theory and their ‘powerhouse’ to maximise learning and wellbeing
A Responsibility Theory® (RT) classroom uses optimal evidence-based teaching and learning strategies (see Purje, 2014, 2019). The teaching and learning experiences created ensure that the classroom environment is safe, secure, academically challenging, socially supportive and where all students are actively ...
More »Five reasons why science fiction writing is now a critical genre: Opinion
The science fiction writing genre has never been more critical for students to master in their pursuit of academic success. In fact, the increasingly relevant part that science fiction plays in our lives has been emphasised by the director of ...
More »How education for people with a disability needs to change: Podcast
EducationReview · Dr Kate de Bruin | How education for people with a disability needs to change Dr Kate de Bruin, an expert and lecturer in inclusive education at Monash University, recently provided evidence to the Royal Commission into Violence, ...
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