Teaching is a complex pursuit with teachers constantly facing competing demands, increasingly diverse student groups, high accountability; and new requirements and evidence to be adopted regularly. Therefore, success in teaching depends upon some important attributes and capabilities. Graduate teachers nowadays ...

Imagine your busy household, on a Tuesday evening. Your children are watching TV, you are tidying away the dishes after the evening meal. Your mind drifts to the pile of laundry waiting from the weekend sports, the homework that needs ...

Mention the terms ‘intellectual giftedness’ and ‘learning disability’ and there is a general understanding of what each term means. However, most people are unaware that in many circumstances the two can go hand-in-hand. Current US research suggests that 14 per ...

Doxa, a not-for-profit university pathways program, has partnered with the Victorian Government to introduce disadvantaged high school students to diverse careers in government and to ensure future job seekers from underprivileged areas are not left behind. Education Review invited three ...

High density living, the use of technology and the end of summer may all be reasons children are now being robbed of valuable time outside. But this could be to the detriment of the next generation with more and more ...

The new reports on TIMSS and PISA results are a more detailed examination of last year’s ‘first look’ reports.  The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) are different, but complementary international ...

As adults, what do we expect from children when we talk with them? Should we expect their close attention and active engagement in return? Do we wish that they’d put down their electronic device so we could talk with them ...

There can be no doubt that schools face increasingly complex challenges. The demands placed on schools by society have changed. There is an increased expectation for schools to produce socially literate young people who are ready for a workplace that ...

2016 John Laing award recipient Pitsa Binnion shares her inspiration and vision for successful school leadership. Pitsa Binnion always wanted to be a teacher but never thought about being a principal. She was inspired by her Year 11 geography teacher, ...

The following is an open letter from a prototypical foster kid on their first day of school: Dear Miss Kendall, Tomorrow will be my first day at school and you’ll be my teacher, so I thought I’d let you know ...