It’s perhaps never been harder to be a school principal, or assistant or deputy principal. In an age of high-stakes tests, crowded curricula, increased resourcing demands and seemingly unending administrative requirements, principals across the country are feeling the pinch. In ...
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Bringing the world into the classroom
As any educator will tell you: telling your students about something is one thing, but being able to show them is another. That’s the idea behind On Safari, the latest Google Expedition created by the NSW Department of Education and ...
More »Dairy education program enters 10th year
It’s time for other learning areas to mooo-ve over: Dairy Australia’s Picasso Cows program is inspiring primary-aged students to think more about the importance of dairy to their diets and where it comes from. Now in its 10th year, the ...
More »Weekly Roundup 3: Private-school ‘toffs’, gaming addicts and NAPLAN glitch review
Hi, it’s Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Education Review. Welcome to our third weekly roundup. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. An amusing story to hit our desks this week was the private ...
More »Weekly roundup: ‘bad’ anti-bullying campaigns, drones in the classrooms and housing subsidy cuts
[This story was published on 24 May] Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor at Education Review. Welcome to our second roundup of the issues and stories we were talking about this week. You can either read the summary or listen ...
More »Week in review: NAPLAN, streaming and teachers fighting back
This story was published on 19 May. Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Education Review. Today we're starting our weekly round up of the key stories and issues of the week. You can either read the summary or listen ...
More »‘The smart stay smart, the dumb get dumber’: One teacher’s view on streaming kids
Separating kids according to their assessed ability is the norm in Australian education. In fact, 98 per cent of schools use some form of streaming, with advantages perceived for all parties involved. High-performing students are put on a fast track ...
More »Strengthening professional learning in schools through university collaboration
Teachers could be forgiven for approaching professional learning with a degree of ambivalence. With unrelenting administrative tasks, classroom teaching, preparation and marking, there is always the risk that such learning becomes an encumbrance, a "tick-the-box" registration requirement rather than the critical ...
More »Food education boosted by new online resources for teachers
For award-winning journalist, food writer and author Louise FitzRoy, food education has long been overlooked in the school curriculum. To challenge this idea and highlight how interesting and rewarding food education can be, her company has released an online resources library for ...
More »It’s ‘worldschooling’, not homeschooling: Meet the family championing real-life classrooms
Monday to Friday, behind a desk, in the one place. This is the standard – and much-bemoaned – model for work life. It’s also the model for much of pre-tertiary education, from kindergarten to Year 12. Is this monotonous, precisely ...
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