Education
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Teach kids the value of their data
Our term 3 issue is out now! Find a copy in your staff room or check it out by clicking…
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The Imagination Declaration: young Indigenous Australians want to be heard – but will we listen?
A group of school students from across Australia have just shown what real leadership on Indigenous issues looks like.
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Teachers’ expectations help students to work harder, but can also reduce enjoyment and confidence – new research
Our latest research has looked at just this and found that teachers’ pressure expectations can lead to students working harder…
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More teens are dropping maths. Here are three reasons to stick with it
The Australian Curriculum mandates maths until Year 10. But we’re seeing more students dropping the subject as soon as they…
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Students quiz leaders about their future at GoogleHQ
100 public school students asked some of Australia’s leading thinkers and futurists, 'How might we humanise technology?'
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Adam Voigt: How we signal negative feelings in students
We do our students an awful disservice when our responses to wrong doing or even to negative feelings being experienced…
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How a robot called Pink helped teach school children an Aboriginal language
Students formed a relationship with the robot and became attached to it.
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Group punishment doesn’t fix behaviour, just makes kids hate school
"When disengaged behaviours do occur, teachers need to implement strategies that don’t further disengage students,"
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No full NAPLAN review, says Edu Minister
Instead, the government is extending the online transition by one year pending the already established independent review.
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Children have tutors to fill gaps not to charge ahead, say parents
We interviewed 35 parents about tutoring for their Year 5 (aged around 9-10) children. The parents were from both urban…
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