President Obama’s message has put issues around standardized testing back in the news. Here’s what scholars have been saying.
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Technology is critical for innovation, yet schools struggle to get students interested in this area. Could teaching robotics change this?
Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
We should be worried that half of teachers are thinking of leaving the profession.
Research shows nearly one in three Australian teachers are so unhappy in their profession they consider leaving within their first five years of employment.
Academics are using Twitter in classrooms and finding that it leads to some real results.
Children as young as six can show math anxiety. What’s the link between parents’ math anxiety and their children’s math anxiety?
Why are we splitting our children up into arts and sciences at an age when hormones are raging and peer pressure is so powerful? It’s time for an overhaul of post-16 education.
The recent UK budget announced plans to allow universities that exemplify good teaching to increase their caps on fees, meaning they will be financially rewarded for good teaching practice. But how do you measure this?
The proposal for a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) announced by universities and science minister Jo Johnson in early July that would recognise “excellent teaching” and “make good teaching better…
Wikipedia is frequently considered an unacceptable and unreliable source of information. It’s also constantly correcting – and isn’t that what content should strive to do?
By pre-school children are already thinking about the career they will have when they grow up, and ruling out jobs that do not fit with their gender. We need to get in early to get rid of stereotypes.
Humans spend an enormous amount of time and effort thinking about other people. Like primates, birds and even ants, we often learn skills and information from others. In the past, research has extensively…
For the past twenty years, I’ve heard this question asked many times about online education. It might be tempting for enthusiasts to say “of course it is good,” but I see this as a kind of “trick question…
Recruitment of student teachers to begin training in 2015 is well underway, and the government hopes it will lead to well over 30,000 new teachers entering the profession in England. But data from the…
An article we wrote last week for The Conversation on Seven “great” teaching methods not backed up by evidence prompted a large amount of comment and discussion. One of the main questions has been, ok…
What makes “great teaching”? It’s a complicated question, made more difficult by trying to measure how teachers make decisions in the classroom and what impact those decisions have on what pupils learn…
Can you imagine attending a lecture on, say, string theory and finding that the lecturer was actually explaining this complex scientific concept using his own words – sung to the tune of Queen’s Bohemian…
Amid debates about teacher quality and training, and with the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group soon to report on teacher education, we asked a panel of experts just what makes a good teacher…
As another teachers’ strike looms on July 10 it is worth setting out the reasons that teachers are unhappy with their profession. It’s not just because of conditions of service, pay, and pensions. Teaching…
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor in Education, UNSW Sydney
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer & Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Course Coordinator, Curtin University
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International adviser, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Digital Transformation, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Deputy Program Director, School Education, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Education, Durham University
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
