More than 10,000 teachers in COVID-19 plagued south-west Sydney are set to be prioritised in the state's vaccine rollout, the state government announced on Monday. With the number of COVID cases soaring across Sydney 112 people tested positive up until ...
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Reading Australia Fellow for 2021 wants to connect students to Australian literature, abolish aliteracy
Edwina West from Oakhill College in Sydney has been awarded the prestigious Reading Australia Fellowship Award for 2021 for the project Combating Aliteracy with Australian Literature. The award, which is supported by Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, was announced during this ...
More »Sydney teacher who sexually assaulted student jailed
The heartbreaking toll a Sydney school teacher wrought on a teenage student when she sexually assaulted him has been revealed with a court hearing “he struggles to smile about anything anymore”. Monica Elizabeth Young was handcuffed and taken away by ...
More »Study finds boys’ dislike for fiction is something of a fiction
New research has refuted the common stereotype that schoolboys prefer reading non-fiction, magazines and comics instead of fiction in a finding that is being touted as “significant” and “unexpected”. The study, which included 300 students aged from seven to eight ...
More »Minister hits back over COVID vaccination of St Joseph’s College students, push for teachers to be given vaccine priority
New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard has slammed suggestions the government should be embarrassed students at a prestigious Sydney school were accidentally vaccinated. It was revealed on Tuesday that year 12 students at St Joseph’s College in Hunters Hill ...
More »How we can address the widening gap between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour within the school community – opinion
Educators go to university for four years, complete countless hours of study and spend many days in classrooms completing several practicums to get them ‘classroom ready’. They are taught pedagogy, curriculum, theory and research; however, they aren’t taught how to ...
More »Former Qld teacher used Instagram to groom children: court
A former private school teacher and water polo coach has been slapped with more charges after he allegedly used Instagram to groom children. Dean Carelse was arrested by Sunshine Coast police on Friday. He was charged with 14 counts of indecent treatment ...
More »Supporting EAL/D students in their language-learning journey
When one considers that more than a quarter of the Australian population is born overseas, it becomes obvious that educators will teach at least some students for whom English is not their first language or dialect. In an article posted ...
More »In teachers we trust – opinion
While many Australian schools have spent the last few decades admiring the old school tie, tightening standardisation and rubrics while chasing NAPLAN and ATAR scores, Finnish educators have been told to study best practices, and then try and improve on ...
More »Schools, offices, supermarkets required to use Service NSW QR codes from July 12
All NSW workplaces and retail businesses will be required to use Service NSW QR codes from next month. The requirement, beginning July 12, will represent a massive ramping-up of the state’s information collection relating to the coronavirus and will impact ...
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