Teacher’s Desk
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“It’s overwhelming” what’s happening in schools every day, John Marsden warns
We interview one of Australia’s most iconic school principals and world-renowned young adult fiction author, John Marsden.
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Don’t calm down! Exam stress may not be fun but it can help you get better marks
How can students use stress to their advantage?
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Improving teacher wellbeing starts with you
Here are 12 actions you can take immediately to start improving your own wellbeing.
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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…
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Teacher-student relationships crucial to student engagement
Interestingly, they found the benefits of positive relationships actually outweighed the negative effects of poor relationships.
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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…
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