For new teachers, as the end of first term nears, you may be feeling despair. But don’t leave - we need teachers like you. Here’s some advice on how to make the first year a little less turbulent.
We need to understand that some students make faster progress than others.
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The Grattan Institute’s new report, Widening Gaps, invites us to think differently about how to measure student progress and tackle entrenched inequalities in achievement.
When children start school, they need to develop reading fluency.
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Differentiation is not about about creating different lessons for every student. It’s about teachers providing a range of options for students to demonstrate their learning.
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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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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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.
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.