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 ...

School wellbeing is not: Compulsory yoga – when a teacher wants to sleep ? Cakes in the staffroom – when a teacher isn’t hungry ? “Don’t do any work on the wknd” – when if a teacher doesnt, they’ll be ...

The reality of schools (for as many years as I have worked in education) is that teachers, Principals, and school staff more broadly run the gauntlet each term at frenetic pace, often collapsing physically and emotionally at the finish line. ...

Tony Parker, a former high school geography teacher, isn’t allowed to fully share his story of being bullied.† Legally, he is prevented from doing so. That’s not, however, the kind of silencing he and his peers, Peter Anderson and Kathy Simpson, are aggrieved ...