This year has been nothing short of extraordinary for all Australian school leaders, teams and school communities. It has required an extraordinary level of resilience and energy. It probably comes as no surprise that staff wellbeing is one of the ...

While strong and positive student-teacher relationships are always important, they take on a new level of significance during a pandemic, a UNSW educational psychology lecturer says. In a climate of fear, change and disruption, Dr Rebecca Collie argues that developing ...

New research has found that no concrete evidence exists to suggest that new teachers are less competent than their experienced counterparts, despite reforms and recommendations in recent years to improve the quality of teaching graduates. Led by Professor Linda Graham ...

EducationReview · 'They're hope machines': How schools and teachers can support distressed students - Podcast The hellish summer bushfires and the current COVID-19 pandemic has made 2020 a year most of us would rather forget. But one group, in particular, ...

Students and teachers need more support from schools and policymakers to cope with traumatic events. The call, from University of Melbourne researchers, is contained within a new report which held the twin economic and health crisis – the catastrophic bushfires ...

Three-quarters of Australians teachers are feeling underappreciated and struggle with their workload. That’s one of the findings from one of the largest surveys of teachers in the country, conducted by Monash University. A new report, entitled Perceptions of Teachers and ...

With recent research showing that close to half of newly qualified teachers leave the profession within five years, the education industry must take practical steps to protect teachers from situations which may injure or harm them. Challenging behaviours in the ...

Violent encounters between parents, teachers and principals regularly hit the headlines, with politicians bemoaning a perceived lack of respect for teachers in society. Indeed, in a recent article for Monash Lens by educational and developmental psychologist Sally Kenney and Monash University’s Dr ...

Teachers are well known for all the support and guidance they provide students as they transition into the real world, but who’s there to support and guide the teachers? Well, one Australian university has thought long and hard about this ...

I am a school teacher and am therefore more highly attuned than others when people talk about suggestions for how education should look. I've noticed that when issues of social welfare are being discussed, such as Instagram use, mental health ...