education
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News
Five new QLD state schools coming in 2021
Two primary schools, two high schools and one special school are now underway, with a $320m investment.
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Teacher's Desk
Making better use of Australia’s top teachers will improve student outcomes: here’s how to do it
Australia must do better in school education. Following our worst ever results in international tests last year, politicians are keen…
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News
Don’t ‘just Google it’: 3 ways students can get the most from searching online
Many teachers don’t explictly teach students how to search online. Instead, students often teach themselves and are reluctant to ask…
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QLD breaks records with new vertical school opening
This school is the first to be built in Brisbane's inner city in more than 50 years and the first…
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Industry voices
Downloadable resource: designing a problem-solving methodology in the classroom
The Design Thinking Across the Curriculum resource is a problem-solving methodology designed for students navigating a rapidly-changing world.
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News
Bushfire education is too abstract. We need to get children into the real world
One problem with the Australian Curriculum content statements is that they are relatively abstract and detached from children’s lived experiences.
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News
Coronavirus fears can trigger anti-Chinese prejudice. Here’s how schools can help
In an outbreak situation, xenophobia does not feel like racism. Excluding people who “come from” the epicenter of the outbreak…
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News
More students than ever before in 2020!
"In 2020, we'll see a once-in-a-generation spike in school enrolments, so it is more important than ever to ensure that…
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Opinion
Advice for when your lesson goes wrong…
We have all had that day or that particular lesson that we just want to forget!
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Teacher's Desk
How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher
It started as a New Year’s resolution driven by guilt and a touch of sibling rivalry – but by the…
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