Setting minimum ATAR levels will not improve quality of teaching.
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A change in enrolment patterns demands a more comprehensive approach to selection to teacher education programs that goes beyond establishing minimum ATAR cutoff points.
How can we keep teachers in the job?
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The only way to retain good teachers is to change the way schools operate at a systemic level.
Not every teaching graduate will find permanent work. It’s time to weigh up your options.
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Of the 15,000 newly graduated teachers, less than half will find permanent employment in Australia. Now’s the time to decide if you stay on to do casual teaching or work abroad.
Beware: free speech can be painful.
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Academics must teach students how to think – not what to think.
Classrooms should be full of discussion.
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Students reach the middle years of high school with poor vocabularies and unable to work with language in sophisticated ways.
What’s missing in the telling of this history?
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American textbooks confine the history of indigenous peoples to a distant past.
Should history textbooks be revised to include Native American voices?
What sets brilliant university lecturers apart from their more average peers?
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Teaching often comes second to research in universities. A group of award winning lecturers explains why teaching is the best part of their work.
Are we creating a generation of digitally illiterate students?
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Just 55% of year 6 students and 52% of year 10 students are meeting the expected grades for ICT. What’s going wrong?
Children light candles near the site of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.
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After November 13, teachers in France asked themselves how they could talk to their students about the violence. The answers are both creative and deeply moving.
The Parana River in moonlight.
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A professor of literature who is also a poet tackles the issue of the inroads technology has made in the relationship between teacher and learner.
Current policies aren’t working – it’s time to open the door to other suggestions.
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Current incentives used to recruit more teachers to work in rural and regional schools aren’t working. But could the health sector offer up some possible solutions?
Anything wrong with unis spending tuition-fee money on research?
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A lack of government guidance on how student tuition fees should be used by universities is resulting in money for teaching being spent on research instead.
Viagra rendered in Minecraft.
The online building game offers a way to explore the world of molecules like no other.
Why should schools need to moderate testing?
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President Obama’s message has put issues around standardized testing back in the news. Here’s what scholars have been saying.
Time for children to start learning how to build robots?
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Technology is critical for innovation, yet schools struggle to get students interested in this area. Could teaching robotics change this?
Simplifying a problem can make it easier to solve.
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Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
Is it worth all this?
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We should be worried that half of teachers are thinking of leaving the profession.
Teaching is more emotionally taxing than most people realise.
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Research shows nearly one in three Australian teachers are so unhappy in their profession they consider leaving within their first five years of employment.
Can Twitter improve students’ engagement with course materials?
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Academics are using Twitter in classrooms and finding that it leads to some real results.
What’s the reason for your child’s math anxiety?
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Children as young as six can show math anxiety. What’s the link between parents’ math anxiety and their children’s math anxiety?