If there is a one-word answer to the often-posed question, 'What is the one thing that’s most different about the Finnish system?', it is trust. As I led a tour group through Finnish schools, a number of the group were ...

When the pandemic caused the shutdown of society, and schools, practically overnight, many teachers were scrambling to work out how to keep their students engaged with their classwork. During a very stressful time for society, teachers had to adjust to ...

Teachers, school counsellors, teaching assistants, and education staff members care deeply about the students they work with on a daily basis. The past few years have brought many different kinds of trauma to our students and to us personally. The ...

Every teacher has heard the refrain from their non-teacher friends, relatives, acquaintances and even random strangers, about how “lucky” they are to get twelve weeks of holiday a year. Little do these people know exactly how much we need this ...

Many parents understand the heartbreaking experience of having a child who is being bullied. Watching your child go through bullying can be traumatic, leaving you searching for solutions to help your child find relief from their circumstances. Distance education may ...

It’s not unusual for anyone’s mind to wander when they should be focused on something. This is even more difficult for students in a busy class with multiple potential distractions. So how long do you normally expect your students to ...

Remember when former Morrison government minister Stuart Robert lashed out at “dud” teachers? In March, the then acting education minister said the “bottom 10%” of teachers “can’t read and write” and blamed them for declining academic results. This is more than just ...

When I signed my first contract with the board of Moreton Bay College at the age of 37, I had no idea how much of my time as a principal would be devoted to my own leadership. I knew that ...

Whatever happens, and however the war will end in Ukraine, the world has learnt a lot. It is not only the military, politicians and economists who can draw lessons from this war but also educationists. Education researchers, especially mathematics education ...

The virtual classroom has evolved from an early 2000’s video conference that delivered instructions with little teacher interaction to an innovative, interactive and collaborative learning space that all students can be involved in. To meet the challenges of recent times, ...