In Australia, approximately 50 per cent of teachers will leave the profession in the next five years, and 45 per cent of teachers will not be teaching in 10 years' time. Up to 25 per cent of teachers attribute their ...

With all the talk about a teacher shortage, and the fact that some 50 per cent of the country’s qualified teachers are no longer in the profession, I’ve found myself reflecting on the reasons for this astonishing figure and what ...

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 ...

The phone on my Principal’s desk rang and I didn’t even get the opportunity to say “Hello”. “Get down here now!” shrieked my panicked Year 5 teacher, an educator usually calm and highly competent. In the background I could hear ...

Worried about the prevalence of academic misconduct at your institution? You might have good reason to be. While the Australian government moved to outlaw the advertisement and provision of contract cheating services in September 2020, it's unlikely to stamp out ...

This past week, ACARA released its draft revision of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics with the view to “refine, realign and declutter” the content. This has been long overdue. Since the curriculum was first published in 2010, Australia has performed poorly on international tests ...

During the entire four-year period, where John experienced what would have been hundreds of ‘event horizon’ episodes, he never asked to stop. Each time I asked John to stop, he would then inevitably present and say a variety of things, ...

So your kids aren’t super excited by the prospect of becoming a statistician or a maths teacher. Perfectly understandable, but you don’t need to do away with maths just yet – it might still be the ticket to their dream ...

In terms of all of the complex multimovement sequence actions that John engaged in, there was within this process the intentional self-directed activation of what D. Royce Sadler referred to as hard goals, and also that of stretch goals. Hard ...

My kids were born mathematicians. My eldest developed an interest in fluid mechanics when he was three, studiously observing the ripples that spread every time he dropped a pebble in a puddle. Meanwhile, his younger brother set about testing geometric ...