Teacher education is set to become increasingly part-time, female-dominated, with more teachers working outside their area of expertise.
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We have an oversupply of teachers, a lack of specialist teachers and an undervalued profession.
Listen up new teachers, here’s what you need to know before you hit the classroom.
Teaching philosophy for just one hour a week can improve children’s progress in writing, maths and reading.
Claims made by politicians and the media about what does and does not improve education outcomes are repeated on a regular basis. But is there much truth in them?
To close the gender gap in schools, we need to look at far more than just grades.
Apps, games and technologies like Pokémon Go should be approached with an open mind as they offer many potential avenues to employ an engaging, student-centred approach to education.
Teaching graduates are expected to meet new test standard from July 1 this year.
Focusing on progress – not just achievement – and investing in improving teaching practice will help to lift slipping standards in Australian schools.
Home-schooled children appear to do neither worse nor better than those who attend regular school, so why is there an increasing number of parents who are opting for their child to be educated at home?
The lesson to be learned from Aurukun is around the impact of out-sourcing education to commercial interests.
Speech patterns are just important as letter sounds when learning to read.
Now that the OLT is closing and the grants and fellowships are lost, it is not clear whether the government will play an active role in enhancing teaching excellence in our universities.
Financial literacy is not just about knowledge, so it would help if we taught it using day-to-day issues.
Closing the Office of Learning and Teaching removes Australia’s national commitment to innovation and improved performance in learning and teaching.
Our education system fails to amplify students’ creativity and interest in learning. To continue along the current path is increasingly unscientific, unjustifiable and plain dull.
In the future some humans may be born without either a mother or father as we now know them, and with no other humans around to bring them up.
While schools receive an extra $1.2 billion in funding for 2018-20, reforms for higher education are delayed by a further year.
While Labor’s policy proposals for schools are all mapped out, the Coalition has yet to specify its plans for education.
Schools and universities pump lots of time and money into collecting data on learning analytics, but there is no research to show that such data actually helps to improve learning outcomes.
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor of Learning Sciences, Monash University
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