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Once a fortnight Teacher ventures down to Room 3 – the basement archives at the Australian Council for Educational Research.

Two Melbourne educators have created developmental rubrics to teach students in what Vygotsky called the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) - just outside their learning comfort zone.

In Part 2 of our video series on books for reluctant readers, Teacher speaks to Peter Hillman, Head of Library and Information Services at Scotch College in Victoria, about his top picks.

Melbourne teacher, Lois Smethurst, reviews TinyTap, a free app that takes advantage of touch-screen technology and allows students to make games.

Switching on captions is in this Melbourne school’s policy because, as the principal says, ‘good teaching practice for deaf kids, is good teaching practice for all kids.’

Staff at one Victorian school told Teacher they would like to know more about intervention orders, so we asked two lawyers from the state give a brief overview.

Dave Tout explains why Australia’s 2012 PISA results in mathematics and numeracy paint a worrying picture.

Teacher ventured to Victoria’s south-east to Dandenong High School and spoke to Maria Papazoglou, Manager of the school’s Learning Resource Centre, about books for reluctant readers.

When New South Wales principal Natalie Mansour trialled project-based learning (PBL) in her school, she soon realised the 'traditional' classroom needed a revamp.

A recent survey indicated that school teaching is viewed as an honest and ethical profession by a large percentage of Australians. See where school teachers rank amongst other professions in this infographic.