My suggestion that we rethink support classes and the number and range of special schools when interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald recently was met with dismay by some who are concerned that this could reduce “choice” for students with ...

I can hardly bear to watch free-to-air television any more. Everything has been reduced to a competition. Cooking, dancing, singing, surviving – even living in a house. The whole world has been divided into winners and losers, and this will ...

As educators, we know that we face the persistent problem of engaging adolescent students. We are aware that there is a link between the middle years and poor school retention in later years. And we are concerned that where you ...

Students who experience ongoing failure in upper-primary and lower-secondary school face a myriad of difficulties in pursuing post-school options and contributing to society through employment and aware citizenship. Those who exhibit consistent weaknesses in basic skills, such as the recall ...

The last decade has seen enormous and rapid change to the way professional development is conducted within Australian schools, as part of a bid to seek continuous improvement of teaching standards across the country. The most fundamental shift, says Associate ...

Professional development and learning is a key way to implement reform at both a system-wide and school level. It is integral to the professional lives of teachers, not just an ‘add on’, and it is being shaped by standards-based reforms. ...

Educators are pursuing postgraduate studies in a variety of disciplines, often as a way to further their professional practice in an area of interest to them. Take Sarah Rakich, for example. The kindergarten teacher from South Melbourne is currently studying ...

Principal support is one of the major factors influencing a teacher’s decision to undertake a postgraduate course. Further, a principal’s views and attitudes can influence the area of further study a teacher undertakes. Market research, undertaken on behalf of the ...

are the students themselves, much to our detriment, writes Lucas Walsh. Over the last three years, debates about the purposes and improvement of schooling in Australia have opened up across a range of fronts, from the national curriculum, investment in ...

Groundhog Day. Policy by press release. Fiddling round the edges. The disappointment among educators at the policies put forward in this election is palpable. Some individual policies, such as Labor’s autonomy for school leaders and the Liberal’s plan for children ...