National Science Week gives people a chance to think ahead. But the technological future isn’t just about emotive robots and self-driving cars; it also involves children. That’s why, if we want a smart machine programming a self-driving car, we need to ensure ...

Curiosity about body parts, self-exploration, looking at or touching other children’s bodies, and interest in toileting activities are all typical sexual behaviours of young children. However, when asked about this, some educators only identified the first two as such. More ...

Why choose teaching? Australian Catholic University’s Learning Sciences Institute Australia (LSIA) asked a random sampling of 12,854 Queensland-registered teachers. Just over 1,160 responded – which makes it the largest-ever current teacher survey – and the results were illuminating, if not unexpected: ...

The teacher brain drain continues, NAPLAN’s substantially unwanted, and stress levels are untenable. Those are just some of the disquieting findings from a new Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) and Australian College of Educators (ACE) teacher survey. From over 300 teachers surveyed ...

Teachers may be flustered by the advent of the My School website, showing individual schools’ NAPLAN scores, but perhaps they needn’t be. A Roy Morgan Research survey has revealed they are the fourth most trusted professionals in Australia. The market ...

Advertorial content by CQUniversity click here for more information  When it comes to challenges for educators, behaviour change is one of the toughest, but a new course at CQUniversity Australia could provide the science-based tools needed to make a difference. If ...

“I always say in jest to people, if you type NAPLAN in a Word document or on the computer, it autocorrects to NAPALM, which I think says it all.” Associate professor Michael Nagel, an educational psychologist at the University of ...

Thousands of teachers worldwide educate students in areas outside of their expertise – and this isn’t just limited to subject knowledge. As the Australian Catholic University’s Dr Anna Du Plessis outlines in her book, Out-of-Field Teaching Practices: What Educational Leaders Need ...

Teaching is a complex pursuit with teachers constantly facing competing demands, increasingly diverse student groups, high accountability; and new requirements and evidence to be adopted regularly. Therefore, success in teaching depends upon some important attributes and capabilities. Graduate teachers nowadays ...

Australian school teachers spend a fifth of their holidays at work or working from home, a new survey has found. The survey of 1014 school teachers by First Point Research and Consulting – and commissioned by multinational education publisher Pearson ...