Teachers’ professional lives can be highly demanding, pressured, stressful and at times, emotionally exhausting. But there’s an unspoken demand they suppress their emotions and just get on with it.
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Four experts weigh in on ways to replenish the US teacher workforce and curb burnout.
Mindfulness practices may help one examine long-held cultural assumptions, allowing one to better respond to current critical issues such as climate change and systemic racism.
Three education experts explain why students aren’t learning the basics.
Colleges of education must have increased resources to improve training. They must also address gender-specific issues such as childcare provision, accommodation and sexual harassment.
Teachers still hold the key to children’s learning and no keyboard or screen can replace their role.
A concerning number of children in Australia have experienced trauma. Being more sensitive to what this means can help both the child and the teacher.
The education sector has to constantly re-learn lessons about using digital technologies in teaching.
A shortage of competent and qualified maths teachers is a key contributing factor to the low maths performance of South African school children.
The fact that teachers in Uganda’s rural schools weren’t trained in the local language means they can’t teach children in their mother tongue and this leads to poor literacy acquisition.
Due to restricted resources and infrastructure, few schools have been able to adopt online learning as a result of the lockdown.
High performing systems focus on the same things Australian governments do, but they work much more intensively on making these things happen.
What South Africa needs to do to recruit the number of teachers needed to offer quality education.
Student teachers saw certain incidents in their classrooms as a learning process that caused them to act, respond and reflect so they could maintain quality teaching.
Our top-scoring students aren’t choosing to become teachers, and that has flow-on effects for the students who come after them.
In addition to being poorly trained, Nigeria’s school teachers are being outnumbered by a growing population.
The need for qualified teachers is a major challenge in a number of African countries.
A brief guide for teachers and parents on tech in the classroom.
Initiatives to tackle South Africa’s reading crisis must take the country’s realities into account.
Every year South Africans spend twice as much on chocolate than they do on books
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Researcher in TESOL & Literacy, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Deputy Program Director, School Education, Grattan Institute
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Professor Emeritus Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Education and Director of Teacher Education, University of Leicester
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Associate professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Director in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Durban University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in Public Policy and Management, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership & Management, Department of Education & Professional Studies, King's College London
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Director of the Centre for Professional Education, University of Warwick
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Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Education, University of Cambridge