A new report has found that Australian student achievement has continued to decline despite being one of the highest spending countries on schooling in the world. In a report by the Centre for Independent Studies’ (CIS) Glenn Fahey, titled Dollars ...
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Soft skills key for the careers of tomorrow: Dr Alexia Maddox – Podcast
EducationReview · Soft skills key for the careers of tomorrow | Dr Alexia Maddox A new study conducted by Oxford University Press surveyed 1000 recent graduates and found that 88 per cent of them believed “soft skills” were necessary to ...
More »What the 2020 word of the year tells us about students’ experiences of the pandemic
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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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 ...
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