South Australian parents have been encouraged to send their children to school next week with health officials declaring it safe for term two to start. Chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier has written to parents and school staff across the ...

Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning framework needs no introduction to educators. It has been used in schools across Australia for years now to deliver consistent, evidence-based learning outcomes and is the culmination of synthesizing more than 1,500 meta-analyses comprising more ...

Michael Lawrence is a Victorian teacher and author of the forthcoming book - TESTING 3,2,1: What Australian Education Can Learn From Finland: A Teacher’s Perspective. Now that he's teaching almost entirely online, Lawrence argues that old disciplinarian models of behaviour ...

Students aren't as empathetic as they once were and have less ability to focus. Those were some of the findings from the Gonski Institute’s Growing Up Digital report. The group surveyed almost 2000 teachers and school leaders across Australia and ...

The Victorian government has partnered with the ABC to give primary school students access to interactive learning activities at home. The first set of 15 learning activities are screening on ABC ME this school week and have been uploaded to ...

“My job just got a whole lot more complicated.” That was one New South Wales teacher’s reaction to the announcement by premier Gladys Berejiklian that the state’s students will soon return to school for face-to-face teaching in a staggered fashion. ...

The phrase ‘home schooling’ is being used to describe what parents in some states in Australia and globally are experiencing, with the temporary cessation of formal face-to-face schooling in lieu of remote modes of learning. Undoubtedly, some students will find ...

As schools around the country begin to face the realities of remote classrooms and online learning, there’s a growing divide between those who are prepared for the use of remote electronic environments and those who are not. As students, teachers ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been saying it from the start of the COVID-19 crisis, and he’s saying it still: Australian students should attend school. That’s an opinion backed by Australia’s chief medical officer, Professor Brendan Murphy. But it’s not ...

The federal president of the NSW Teachers Federation, Angelo Gavrielatos, has recommended returning to school in a "staggered" fashion after health restrictions lift, starting with Kindergarten and Year 12. Once authorities relax social distancing measures, instead of the entire student ...