Like health practitioners of all stripes, 2020 and 2021 are years that many teachers in COVID-19 affected areas would probably rather forget. Undoubtedly acquiring new skills – and a greater sense of agility and resilience – benefitted many teachers, but ...
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During my third year of teaching English and History at senior secondary school, I told a colleague I wanted to enroll in a Master of Educational Studies as I was passionate about literacy education. She responded: “Why would you want ...
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It has been revealed that young people around the world are struggling at a staggering rate, after a new UNICEF report found that 1 in 5 aged 15-24 feel depressed. In light of the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
More »A Victorian teacher has launched court action to fight the state’s ‘no jab, no job’ vaccine mandate
A Victorian teacher is the first to launch legal action against the state’s ‘no jab, no job’ vaccine mandate. Relief teacher Belinda Cetnar launched an urgent application against the policy and will appear in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The ...
More »‘Not without risks, not without challenges’: NSWTF president on return to school plan – podcast
As NSW students prepare for a staggered approach back to the classroom, Education Review spoke to the president of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, Angelo Gavrielatos, about how well prepared the public sector is for the final school term. ...
More »Dozens of Covid-19 infections uncovered among Victorian VCE students
Dozens of infectious VCE students have narrowly avoided passing Covid-19 onto their fellow senior students, after a testing blitz picked up the virus in would-be GAT sitters. Deputy Premier James Merlino confirmed 33 students would not be able to sit ...
More »New survey shows high levels of trust for teachers in Aussie schools
Confidence and trust in teachers continues to grow as a new survey found that 72 per cent of people trusted that teachers' work was in the best interests of students. As the pandemic has forced remote learning on many families ...
More »The importance of classroom ventilation beyond the pandemic – podcast
As NSW students prepare for a staged return to school around mid-October, concerns have been expressed about the lack of air purification systems in NSW classrooms as well as the absence of CO2 monitors to check air quality. However, there ...
More »World Teacher’s Day special: preparing pre-service teachers for a post-COVID classroom
As we celebrate another World Teacher's Day, it is fair to say that the global pandemic has been unlike anything we have experienced collectively as teachers before. It has created pressure in the mass adoption of remote learning, and exposed ...
More »What Finland can teach Australian education about teacher autonomy, retention: opinion
With all the talk about a teacher shortage, and the fact that some 50 per cent of the country’s qualified teachers are no longer in the profession, I’ve found myself reflecting on the reasons for this astonishing figure and what ...
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