Students participating in chores have better planning skills, self-regulation, working memory and execute tasks better, resulting in better academic performance. A new study conducted by PhD candidate from La Trobe University Deanna Tepper found a relationship between executive functions and ...
More »La Trobe’s unique Nexus teaching program celebrates its first graduates – podcast
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 ...
More »La Trobe joins other unis offering alternative forms of entry for Year 12s
La Trobe University has created two innovative new pathways as an alternative to ATAR to help Year 12 students demonstrate their academic achievements and gain entry to university. The pathways, which are free and studied online, will be available to ...
More »Joanna Barbousas on the decline in interest in teaching: Podcast
A recent Indeed report concluded that searches for teaching jobs declined in 2019, with some states recording sharp dips. This follows an article in The Conversation last year lamenting the drop in first-preference applications in teaching, as well as a ...
More »The importance of early reading instruction
Professor Pamela Snow is head of the La Trobe Rural Health School and will soon become Professor of Cognitive Psychology in the School of Education at La Trobe. In this podcast, Snow talks about how blended reading approaches, which are ...
More »How to prevent deaths in the great outdoors
Can you guess how many people have died during school outdoor education experiences in Australia between 1960 and 2002? At 128, it might be more than you imagined. Yet the number of deaths – shocking as it is – isn't the most sobering detail ...
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