Principal builds pedagogy through the strength of collaborative responsibility. By Madeleine Regan School leadership for Chris Bartlett is about connection, collaboration and bringing people together to benefit students and their learning. At Mater Dei Primary School, Toowoomba, Bartlett is ...
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Volunteer works to move Indonesian children from street to class
“Education can change someone’s life.” That's why Mira Lay is volunteering in Indonesia to get street children into the classroom. Lay has been working at Sahabat Anak, a volunteer organisation that gives free informal education, in Jakarta. The Indonesian Government estimates ...
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Our national prosperity depends upon educational approaches that will help create elite teachers and school leaders. By Margery Evans What kind of country do we want Australia to be? That’s a worthwhile but broad question, so let’s be more ...
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Ravenswood captain dresses-down school for putting image first
The outgoing captain of Sydney's Ravenswood School for Girls went off-script during her end-of-year address, to criticise its business-like operation. Sarah Haynes said the school attempts to portray an image of perfection to entice parents to enrol their kids. She ...
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New research has found it can take young people 10 years to secure full-time work, but through no fault of their own. The Life Patterns study from University of Melbourne’s Youth Research Centre followed a cohort of just under 4000 ...
More »Union questions research that backs computer marking of essays
The New South Wales Teachers Federation has criticised research that argues marking NAPLAN essays with a computer is viable. Research from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) found four separate automated essay scoring systems were able to mark ...
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Working in the UK is a good foundation for other quality international opportunities. I’m 29 years old and a primary teacher. I left Canberra in 2012 for my ambitions – to have an international work experience and to live in ...
More »A gaming voyage into Tasmania’s colonial history
Children will navigate Tasmania’s colonial history through a new educational game developed by the Australian National Museum of Natural History. The Voyage puts children in the shoes of a convict ship’s surgeon superintendent, sailing from London to Van Diemen’s Land ...
More »Australian principals facing violence, bullying
They're supposed to keep a check on schoolyard bullying but many Australian principals are victims of bullying themselves, a survey has found. Nearly half of Australia's school principals have faced threats of violence – and parents are the worst offenders, a ...
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