In this story • A comparison of salary trends • A new career model to pay the best teachers more • Why has teaching lost its prestige? Tom Halliburton started his 50-year teaching career in 1954 at Gunnedah High School ...
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Games are much more than mere entertainment
I recently presented a demonstration of a game called SuperBetter to my school counselling colleagues. My boss was genuinely surprised when she realised it did not involve shooting anything with powerful weapons, flinging birds into objects or chasing medieval goblins ...
More »Parents must teach children to prevent abuse
There are more than 3500 officially reported cases of child sexual abuse made to child protection authorities and police each year in Australia. The Australian Institute of Family Studies estimates that fewer than 30 per cent of all child sexual ...
More »VET in schools needs support
Almost a quarter of a million young Australians choose vocational education and training (VET) as part of their pathway to school completion. However, despite good policy intentions and well established recognition of VET in Schools (VETiS) within our senior secondary ...
More »How language changed harmful attitudes
In the early 1970s across the two major contributors of educational direction, the US and the UK, there were two significant and influential bodies of work that became the shapers of provision for students with special educational needs. In the ...
More »Building bridges not barriers
Schools regularly create artificial barriers that prevent potentially capable students of completing rigorous upper school courses. These include requirements for A grades in certain subjects at year 10, in order to take a particular subject in years 11 and 12. ...
More »Schools must be wary of corporate ‘help’
The furore following the recent announcement that the Jenny Craig chief executive, Amy Smith, would address a gathering of hundreds of girls’ school teachers has once again brought the uncomfortable issue of corporate presence in schools to light. The public ...
More »Kids’ commissioner a step closer
The Attorney-General has moved to set up a National Children's Commissioner who will ensure there is an independent, child-focused voice to advocate for children and young people at the national level. "We want to give kids the best start in ...
More »Weathering the winds of change
The discipline of education seems to never be far from the spotlight of political and community focus. We see frequent calls from politicians, parents, economists and industry leaders to improve school learning outcomes by improving the quality of teachers. It ...
More »The arts pale behind literacy and numeracy
Remember when you were a child? Remember what it felt like to ‘squish’ paint around a piece of paper? What it felt like to dance and sing along to your favourite TV characters, whether they were bears, birds or dinosaurs? ...
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