NSW public school’s have dominated this year’s HSC First in Course list, with 73 of 114 courses topped by public school students. Sydney Boys High School was the most successful public school on the list, earning eight First in Course ...

It’s essential to test children for speech and language disorders, but applying monolingual tests to multilingual children only leads to poor diagnoses and damaged learning outcomes, experts say. The comments were made by linguistics scholar Dr Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, who this ...

How poor classroom acoustics are linked to lower skill levels in students. If you feel you’re struggling to maintain discipline and cooperation, and your students’ motivation and engagement levels are lacking, it may have something to do with the way ...

How technology will connect educators and students, and usher in a new age of smart schools. Schools are becoming increasingly technology rich. Many provide connected devices for students or have programs that enable students to bring their own devices (BYOD). ...

The Teaching Teams trial promises teacher education students and their supervisors a new approach to self-reflection and assessment. With the current push for new teachers who are ‘classroom ready’, it’s no wonder our teacher education students, teachers and schools are ...

The majority of Gen Z students feel unprepared to leave school and want access to more hands-on and creative learning experiences in the classroom, a new study has found. The Adobe study, Gen Z in the Classroom: Creating the Future, ...

Studies show girls are 25 per cent less confident in their ability to learn maths than boys, but a new national mentoring program aims to alter this reality. The mathematics network is now being piloted in five states (NSW, QLD, ...

It’s been five years since the last – and Australia’s inaugural – Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results were released. Now, with the 2016 crop divulged, we’ve improved, but not by much. Just 16 per cent of the over ...

Australian students are some of the world’s best collaborative problem-solvers, according to a report released yesterday. The PISA report included an assessment collaborative problem solving for the first time, and ranked Australia 10th out of 52 countries, behind Canada and New Zealand ...

As pressure on teachers increases, the shift is visible in their declining health and the prevalence of burnout, experts say. To curb the issue of teacher burnout – and increase the likelihood of graduates staying in their jobs – Springfox ...