Staying organised at school can help to save teachers' time, lighten their workload and boost their confidence, according to a high school maths teacher and organisation expert. When starting her career 15 years ago, high school maths teacher Leanne Baker ...
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It’s time to measure students’ effort at school: opinion
With the start of a new school year, many students will be apprehensively anticipating the academic challenges ahead. How successfully will they navigate the many and varied demands of a busy curriculum? Will their efforts translate into good grades? Will ...
More »Supporting first year teachers: Q&A
Supporting new teachers during their first day at school can help to reduce attrition rates and provide a better learning environment for all staff and students, according to an education expert. This week, more than four million Australian students returned ...
More »NSW to overhaul maths and english curriculum
NSW English and maths syllabuses are set to be overhauled starting next year and will focus on building students' punctuation, grammar, syntax, sentence structure and core numeracy skills. The curriculum changes were announced on Monday by the state education department ...
More »SA wants to ban phones to reduce school violence
Mobile phones in South Australian public high schools are set to be banned from 2023. The decision follows months of consultations between the state education department, teachers, principals, parent groups and unions after incidents involving students using phones to record ...
More »Understanding and coping with burnout
An expert has urged Australia's educators to take the time to care for their mental health after a survey revealed widespread exhaustion and burn out across NSW schools. A recent NSW state survey, released last week, revealed that more than ...
More »Australia’s best young spellers awarded
The nation’s best young spellers have stumped the Prime Minister in a grilling which would put the opposition to shame. Zachary Cheng, 13, Ozi Egesi, 11, and 10-year-old Joanne Lee were crowned champions across three age groups in the Prime ...
More »Could robots take over assignment marking?
NSW teachers’ workload could be reduced with the introduction of “machine scoring”, where robots would take over students' assignment marking, new research shows. These new ‘automated grading technologies’ could be rolled out in NSW public schools in the next ten ...
More »‘Data is a dirty word’: teacher goes part time to cope with workload
After 34 years of teaching, Barbara*, a Catholic high school teacher has gone part-time due to her tipping workload which has been driven by data collection. The teacher decided to downsize her career to sustain a work-life balance and while ...
More »Teachers’ day: Everyday Australians remember their favourite educator
In celebration of World Teachers' Day, Education Review asked ‘everyday Australians’ to share the memories of their favourite teachers who made their school day unforgettable. Over the past couple of years, Australian teachers have faced numerous challenges with Covid-19, online-learning, ...
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