Even missing a few days from school can be disrupting. You have to catch up on lessons, you miss out on the latest gossip. There’s a new game your friends are playing at lunchtime, and you don’t know the rules. ...
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Valuing teachers: how can we avoid 5 year burnout?
It's an alarming statistic that educator Stephanie Wescott now belongs to: leaving the teaching profession after just five years of practice. In a wide-ranging interview in The Age, which covered everything from teachers not "being trusted to do their work" ...
More »This week’s hot topic: Mark Latham’s views on teacher pay and performance-based funding
Whether you agree with him or not, Mark Latham is always passionate about getting things done, and his latest agenda has been improving NSW's education system, particularly performance-based teacher pay and lifting student achievement across the board. Listen to a ...
More »Global teaching exchange program open to Australia in 2020
A US-based teacher exchange program is accepting applications for Australian and New Zealand teachers wishing to participate in a teacher exchange program in the United States next year. For over 30 years, Participate Learning has had nearly 10,000 teachers from ...
More »‘Reading for pleasure needs to be back on the table’: CBCA Book Week
As we reach the end of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book Week, which has run since 1946, an important yet often forgotten lesson is simply reading for pleasure. Education Review spoke to senior lecturer at Monash University, Dr ...
More »Leadership in Education – Part 2: Patrick O’Reilly – Where have we gone wrong?
Despite record investment in education, Australian students’ literacy and numeracy levels have been steadily declining. This podcast series speaks with some of Australia’s K-12 education leaders and asks the key question: What, if anything, are we doing wrong? In episode ...
More »‘A school within a school’: helping to close the gap on Indigenous education
https://youtu.be/ABciWrJpRUI Gawura School, co-located at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney, is a coeducational K-6 school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children primarily from urban areas. Although located on Gadigal Country, it teaches a highly successful Wiradjuri language ...
More »Studying for success – Part 2: managing information
In episode two of Studying for Success, Dr Steven Greene introduces us to the fundamentals of managing information properly – from file storage, USB storage and interesting graphic organisers to colour-coded topic sections. These techniques will make help students organise ...
More »Weekly wrap up: performance pay for teachers
Listen as education editor Wade Zaglas reflects on one of the week's key issues: performance pay for teachers. Who's for it and against it? Can it really work? And what kind of an effect could it have on the profession?
More »Studying for success – Part 1: time management
Dr Steven Greene is an author, educator, and founder of mAke the grAde, a tutoring, education and training company. His book, Maximum Education, is an Amazon bestseller and he specialises in equipping students with the right skills and habits to ...
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