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Why these quick fixes won’t work for teaching today or tomorrow
If you belong to a social media group for teachers, you’ve inevitably seen a post that goes like …
The future of teaching: what we must find out
What will it mean to be a teacher – and teach – in the future? What should be the relationships between schools and communities, young people and school systems? How can we overcome the challenges currently faced by teachers and by schools to imagine new futures for teachers and teaching? The Wednesday evening of the …
A frantic year for education. ICYMI – here are our big reads of the year
Thank you to our many wonderful readers so far this year – and particularly to our many wonderful …
Scary school stories: from zombie data to systems at war
Long-standing challenges in education confront the new Labor government: the teacher shortage; teacher pay and conditions; the equitable …
Good question: Did the teaching panel even look at what’s available now?
Having been a reviewer of many ITE programs myself, I have seen a relatively high degree of consistency in relation to what is being taught, practised, and assessed regarding effective pedagogical practice and classroom management. …
One day to go: the great education reckoning as parties eye the election prize
The ‘education election’? Before heading to the polling booths this Saturday, we take stock of how the major political parties, and the newly formed Public Education Party, stack up over their policies and priorities for education. It has been a difficult time for public education over the last decade. Research has documented that the teaching …
It would be so much better if we taught two ways. Here’s why
From one school year to the next, students experience an escalation in the amount and difficulty of schoolwork. Researchers have tried to identify instructional approaches which would reduce the cognitive burden on students, especially when they are in the early stages of learning—such as when they start a new academic year, a new subject, a …