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School suspension rates drop significantly if US teachers came from more diverse backgrounds, a scholar says.
Teaching graduates must have spent time training in schools for the day they take charge of their own classes. But the past two years have laid bare the system’s failings.
Teachers are right in selecting age-appropriate scientific models and teaching these in age-appropriate ways – even though the science they present isn’t the whole story.
Every state and territory has its own rules when it comes to the kinds of gifts teachers can receive. But there are general principles to consider that are the same everywhere.
Pre-recording videos, giving specific instructions and sharing your emotions with your students will lead to success in the online classroom.
A clearer understanding of teachers’ needs is required if schools and universities are to be better prepared for a future where technology is key to teaching and learning.
Many students in Australia don’t have access to specialist teachers in science and maths, and the problem is only getting worse.
Some school districts are moving to cut back on the use of suspensions. But if school discipline reforms are not implemented in a thoughtful way, classrooms may become harder to manage.
Thanks to life-skills training, girls who previously believed it improbable that they would go on to secondary school are now allowing themselves to dream about possibilities.
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?
Want kids to improve fluency in English language? Try dance and drama as teaching tools.
Students of color are subjected to harsher disciplinary measures. Are schools doing enough to check this practice?
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Simon Crook is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Associate, School of Physics, University of Sydney
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English/Literacy Education Lecturer and Deputy Head, School of Education (Victoria), Australian Catholic University
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