For any teachers yet to lodge their tax returns, the media face of tax accountancy firm H&R Block and former Australian Taxation Office senior director Mark Chapman has offered his top tax tips. Chapman explained when teachers work from home ...

A professional learning network (PLN) – it’s something teachers are told about at conferences. It consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from. In PLNs, people connect with other people for the specific purpose of learning ...

Raising the bar for entry into education programs isn’t the answer to better instruction and will make it harder to serve a growing population of students. By Kevin Donnelly ATARs and tertiary selection are controversial topics that have dominated much ...

New research suggests that males' tendency to internalise stress could explain the chronic shortage of men in the classroom. A survey of 55 male pre-service teachers and 255 female pre-service teachers found that the men had higher levels of stress ...

Supporting teachers in asking the right questions and taking the best approaches to their professional development gets results. Many educational landscapes around the globe have embraced the challenge of teacher professional learning and prioritised this within their systems. Australian education ...

Professional learning networks can make a big difference in the careers of pre-service and early-career teachers; it's important that they learn how to get the most out of them. When students graduate from the UTS master of teaching program this year, ...

Most have heard of the educational theory of learning styles, which argues students can be categorised as either tactile, auditory or visual learners. It’s been around since the 1970s. It’s also now largely regarded as pseudo-scientific fad; studies have found no ...

For science educators Jeremy von Einem, of Sydney’s Barker College, and Rob Marr, of John Paul College near Brisbane, the rare opportunity to escort their students on a trip to NASA facilities in the US was too good to pass up. ...

With federal Labor pledging $393 million to train 25,000 specialist STEM teachers, its Victorian state counterpart has already allocated $27 million to train these teachers – via a program to be rolled out through Deakin University. The Victorian education minister, ...

Excellent teachers need to be recognised for their work and for their strengths in various areas, but not with performance pay, the dean of one of Australia’s top teacher schools has argued. Melbourne Graduate School of Education professor Field Rickards said good ...