In an extended interview, education editor Antonia Maiolo spoke with Jenny Lewis, an expert in professional development for educators. Lewis, chief executive of Solution Tree, discussed the need for new professional learning agendas that will allow teachers to address the ...

The proportion of aspiring teachers starting degrees without maths education beyond Year 10 has tripled in the past decade, new research has shown. The research studied the maths and science choices made by students in the NSW HSC between 2001 ...

The Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group review is a missed opportunity for the government to set a strong framework for changes to teacher education, AEU federal president Correna Haythorpe said. Haythorpe said the priorities for the review should have been ...

Some schools are changing classrooms to more open-plan environments hoping to facilitate collaborative learning, but new research shows this makes it harder to hear the teacher. A recent survey led by Kiri Mealings, a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, looked ...

Teacher-parent communication fosters better collaboration between school and home contributing positively to a child’s academic success, an expert explains. Dr Denise Chapman, a lecturer at Monash University, specialising in early childhood education, literacy, and digital technologies spoke to education editor ...

New South Wales’ $14 million funding commitment to non-native English speakers in public schools is the best the state has seen in years, literacy expert Misty Adoniou said. Adoniou, senior lecturer of Language, Literacy and TESL at the University of ...

A researcher is seeking feedback from parents of school-aged children across the country as part of a project aimed at understanding and improving relationships between families and schools. Charles Sturt University student Kathryn Dalton is investigating how parents and guardians ...

Using tablets to track learning in the early years of schooling can improve data management and is a fun and engaging way to assess the educational progress of students, a leading researcher says. Maurice Walker, a principal research fellow in ...

Dr Michael Phillips, digital technologies lecturer in the faculty of education at Monash University, speaks to education editor Antonia Maiolo about what new technologies we can expect to see in classrooms this year. Phillips, who’s a former teacher, predicts that ...

Health and physical education is an investment in the future wellbeing of our youth, says the nation’s leading advocacy body for the field. In its national position statement released yesterday, the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER) identified ...