Teacher’s Desk

First, it’s not an instruction manual: 3 things education ministers need to know about the Australian Curriculum

Education ministers across the country will likely consider approving version 9.0 of the curriculum in early 2022. States and territories…

4 years ago

More reasons to teach in the bush

Increased financial support for teachers taking up work in regional NSW will now be extended under a review of the…

4 years ago

Op-Ed: Are all teachers secretly writers?

If you look up the biographies of authors, you will find that many are also teachers, or ex-teachers; Rachael Johns,…

4 years ago

Schools are surveying students to improve teaching. But many teachers find the feedback too difficult to act on

It’s one thing to invest in and gather feedback, but without the ability to act on it, the feedback is…

4 years ago

Leverage 7 learning zones to boost children’s conceptual understanding

The fear is that as we scale up the cognitive expectations, we drag children away from what they want to…

4 years ago

Six Organising Concepts to Supercharge Children’s Thinking and Learning

If students work through and understand these modes, they will have more flexibility and technical know-how as they encounter new…

4 years ago

How to get media ready after COVID+ case

Expert advice on how to cope with national media attention following a COVID transmission event at your school.

4 years ago

8 tips to help exhausted teachers move to online teaching

From my experience working on both sides of the distance education (DE) fence – as a DE teacher at Australian…

4 years ago

Mid-career barriers to teaching torn down

The reform will focus on four key features: removing barriers to entry to the profession, bringing people into the classroom…

4 years ago

Free schools guide about inclusiveness and climate science is not ideological — it’s based on evidence

Topics such as “superdiversity” and “declaring a climate emergency” are only only a small selection of the 35 other topics...…

4 years ago

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