West Australian Liz Smith is a 21st century educator who very much has the future in mind – for both staff and students – when leading her school’s teaching and learning. She began her teaching career on the cusp of ...
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Study suggests need for greater media literacy
Although, in a given day, 80 per cent of children consumed news from at least one source, only 16 per cent of this cohort had learnt how to interpret this material at school over the past year. That's just one finding from the ...
More »Addressing ‘wicked problems’ in special education
A wicked problem, in academia, means a thorny one - one without an obvious solution. In the lead up to the International Day of People with a Disability, Dr David Armstrong has identified four of these in Western special education. ...
More »From housing commission to Harvard: an educator’s journey
It's a true rags to intellectual riches tale. Murat Dizdar, the son of Turkish immigrants, grew up in in a monolithic housing commission block in the inner-Sydney suburb of Glebe. He attended the elite selective public high school, Fort Street, which ...
More »Principal pleads for cutback in skills, increase in knowledge
Educational institutions prioritising teaching skills over knowledge is "seriously fuzzy thinking", says Elizabeth Stone. The principal of Queenwood School for Girls, an independent school in Sydney, presented her views on this at the launch of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. She's right in ...
More »Trial of high school ‘paradigm shift’ a triumph
Picture an entrepreneur. Maybe a rock star one like Mark Zuckerberg, or a more socially-conscious, local one like the guys from Who Gives a Crap. Then imagine the skills they drew on to scale their businesses, things like ambition, problem-solving, communication ...
More »PISA releases latest education comparison of countries
Australian students are some of the world’s best collaborative problem-solvers, according to a report released yesterday. The PISA report included an assessment collaborative problem solving for the first time, and ranked Australia 10th out of 52 countries, behind Canada and New Zealand ...
More »Addressing burnout in teachers
As pressure on teachers increases, the shift is visible in their declining health and the prevalence of burnout, experts say. To curb the issue of teacher burnout - and increase the likelihood of graduates staying in their jobs - Springfox ...
More »Improving education in rural areas
Education specialists and providers have met to discuss how to best tackle the challenges associated with providing education in rural and remote areas. The CISCO event held in Sydney recently was a catalyst for discussions on the NSW Department of ...
More »Education is probably more gender-equal than you think
Women may be better-educated but they're not being paid more. The latest gender equality scorecard from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has revealed that, on average, men earn over $26,000 more than women annually. This represents a wage gap of 22.4 per cent. ...
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