Teacher’s Desk
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Still ‘Waiting for Gonski’ – a great book about the sorry tale of school funding
While recommending adequate funding for schools where students had greater needs, the review did not question or seek to resolve…
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How to talk to children about the invasion of Ukraine, and why those conversations are important
If you are a parent, grandparent, teacher or educator, you may ask yourself: Should I talk to kids about these…
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Australia’s education system is one of the most unequal in the OECD. But we know how to help fix it
Australia ranks in the bottom third of OECD countries in providing equitable access to quality education. This means our education…
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‘I’m not going to waste my time on prayers’: how secular teachers navigate working in religious schools
The study showed teachers’ ethical struggles with student discipline in Catholic and Jewish schools. It revealed most teachers decided to…
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Teachers don’t have enough time to prepare well for class. We have a solution
Almost all teachers (92%) in our study out today said they don’t have enough time to prepare effectively for classroom…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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