Colour is the first of six concepts educators can mobilise to enhance young children’s thinking and learning. Often when vocabulary is taught, the second the students can identify something, the teaching stops. So purple is just purple. It is an ...

Six years have now passed since the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was introduced as part of a suite of educational reforms to return Australia’s education system back to its ‘rightful’ place. Fuelled by an Australian ...

A team of mathematics experts have given their support to ACARA’s proposed revised mathematics curriculum, saying primary school teachers and parents can be confident that the F-6 part of the curriculum is largely “on track”.  Executive chairman and founder of ...

In multiple meta-analysis and research studies, highly respected education researcher John Hattie (2009, 2018), ranked a range of influences and their effect size on student achievement.  At the top of this list was the student-teacher relationship and the effect of ...

It would be of no surprise that finding and maintaining meaningful employment or study for young people with a disability has not always been a priority in the past.  But with the increased awareness of human rights in the modern ...

(Click here to read Pt 1) Total behaviour Total Behaviour is made up of four components: acting, thinking, feeling and physiology. Glasser maintains that individuals have considerable control and choice over the acting and thinking components of their total behaviour; ...

The impact of COVID-19 on students In 2020, COVID-19 caught students, teachers, schools and education systems off guard with the global pandemic, disrupting the education of 1.5 billion students across 188 countries. The effect of the pandemic on the wellbeing ...

Teaching young people how to have respectful relationships is one of the most important things we can do as educators. But without a comprehensive understanding and nuanced approach to the issue, conversations around consent, respect, and relationships can become fraught ...

We are all continually making choices. All choices have consequences. Children and students and their developing brain and mind need to be educated about choices and consequences. In the attempt to understand the world, the brain and mind of children ...

Brendan James Murray is haunted. Well, to be grammatically correct, his school is haunted, but Brendan is tormented by the ghosts that wander the halls. The ghosts of children with unfulfilled potential, ghosts of others who couldn't be reached and ...