Teacher’s Desk

Gonski’s vision of ‘personalised learning’ will stifle creativity and lead to a generation of automatons

The recently developed and implemented Australian Curriculum should be rewritten so every learning area and general capability is written up…

6 years ago

Adam Voigt: Let’s play chess, not poker

It wasn’t uncommon for my staff to attempt to fit another day's work during the evening. And I was guilty…

6 years ago

Morrison Government fails when it comes to education

The Australian Education Union has slammed a decision by Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan to push ahead with a review…

6 years ago

If you want to cut bullying in schools, look at the ‘invisible violence’ in our society

More than a quarter of students in years 4 to year 9 in South Australian schools and more than a…

6 years ago

Improving teacher wellbeing starts with you

Here are 12 actions you can take immediately to start improving your own wellbeing.

6 years ago

New funding for rural & regional students

 $82.8 million funding package will support recommendations from the newly devised panel; more than half of this will be put…

6 years ago

Teacher-student relationships crucial to student engagement

Interestingly, they found the benefits of positive relationships actually outweighed the negative effects of poor relationships.

6 years ago

Three charts on teachers’ pay in Australia: it starts out OK, but goes downhill pretty quickly

Here are the facts: Australian teachers get a very decent starting salary, but their pay quickly falls behind that of…

6 years ago

Teachers need ‘psychological capital’

We must acknowledge the mental fatigue teachers face...

6 years ago

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