What a difference a year makes. Around Australia, ‘normal service’ has largely resumed in schools and places of higher learning. This time in 2020, it was a very different story. COVID shutdowns saw institutions racing to implement remote learning models, ...

NAPLAN is under fire again. “Outdated” and “inappropriate” are words used to describe the aims of NAPLAN in a recent UNSW study. Many of us parents can relate to the many “negative outcomes” kids experience – like stress and anxiety!  ...

Every other week, two types of articles about online exams seem to come out: either students are being caught cheating remotely, or students (and some teachers) fear that the online vigilance of remote exams has the potential to be taken ...

Dissection is an often contentious topic, but it remains a fundamental skill for any student looking to pursue the fields of nursing, veterinary science and dentistry to name but a few. Skills learnt in dissections help students to better prepare ...

Building interpersonal resilience has become a prevalent topic for school leaders in recent months, especially for those desperately trying to support a workforce that is suffering ‘burnout’ at a much higher rate than we have seen previously. Of even greater ...

Walk into any school and you will find teachers who are smiling, chatting happily with students and who seem to be enjoying each day.  Scratch below the surface though and what you may notice is that these teachers, who on ...

The school year has commenced and already there has been a flood of media coverage related to mathematics. The most interesting and important information relates to the pending release of the mathematics curriculum review as announced by ACARA in 2020.  ...

Forget snakes and spiders. In primary school, my biggest fear was long division. I still vividly remember the feeling. A gut-wrenching stress triggered by symbols that refused to make sense, numbers that seem to appear from nowhere, and concepts that ...

Over time, we’ve understood that traditional classroom furniture and traditional classroom design simply no longer facilitates the most effective, engaging and productive learning environment for students. Studies have highlighted that the physical classroom environment has a direct relationship with the ...

Amidst the school shutdowns of 2020, more than a few of us pointed to teachers’ improved relationships with technology as a silver lining. Surely, after a year of wrangling kids in video calls, teachers would no doubt emerge as digital ...