In an attempt to reduce their workload NSW educators will soon be receiving extra help as the government intends to deliver lesson plans and other learning materials.  Teachers across the state will have the opportunity to use pre-made lesson plans ...

A new coaching program directed at university students in education courses aims to reduce attrition rates and better prepare the future teachers for the classroom.  The pilot Student Success Coach Program, launched by Charles Darwin University, oversees students undertaking the ...

A recent report by Deakin University shows that the use of out-of-field teachers to reduce the current shortages can lower student’s results, sparking concern among students worried about their education and future career outcomes. "When history teachers take over science ...

Before joining his colleagues on the picket lines today, Glenn Lowe, a high school head teacher in the Wollongong Catholic diocese shared with Education Review his experience of the teacher shortage crisis. Wednesday was a busy day for Lowe. The ...

Exhaustion, stress and burnout are some of the reasons teachers are leaving the classroom, yet a simple peer support program might be the solution to keep teachers afloat. A new study by La Trobe University used peer support techniques borrowed ...

Catholic School teachers across NSW and ACT will be on the picket lines this week asking for better working conditions and a 10 to 15 per cent salary reset. The industrial action will take place on May 27 and has ...

A recent report from the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership reveals that nearly five hundred thousand educators have had their wellbeing impacted by the last three years of bushfires, floods, Covid-19, lockdowns and online learning. Teacher, coach, author and ...

Between 2019 and 2021 the Victorian and Federal Governments focused on recruiting career-change teachers to help schools facing high turnover and teacher shortages. Career-change teachers are those who have switched career to become teachers or who are currently shifting from ...

An international team of academics has recently published research examining how teachers experienced the swift transition to online learning as COVID-19 impacted face-to-face learning across the world. As both student enrolments and teacher shortages are expected to increase in the ...

In an exciting development for the teaching profession, La Trobe University’s unique Nexus program has recently produced its first group of classroom-ready secondary school teachers.  In their first year, students work part time in schools and receive direct mentoring opportunities ...