Jo Earp

Jo Earp

Editor of Teacher magazine

Jo Earp is the Editor of Teacher.

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TALIS 2024 – Infographic: Teacher views on AI in the classroom
TALIS 2024 – Infographic: Teacher views on AI in the classroom

The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) captures the knowledge and experiences of school educators. Artificial intelligence (AI) featured as survey topic for the first time in 2024. This infographic shows the percentage of Australian teachers who ‘agreed’ or ‘strongly agreed’ with the following benefits and challenges of using AI tools in education.

TALIS 2024: Elevating teacher and school leader voice
TALIS 2024: Elevating teacher and school leader voice

Australia’s results from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) have just been released. The survey captures the firsthand knowledge and experiences of school educators. Here we explore some of the key findings on staff wellbeing, collegiality, mentoring support, and use of AI.

Q&A: Award-winner Pru Mitchell on teacher librarianship, sharing expertise and the role of AI
Q&A: Award-winner Pru Mitchell on teacher librarianship, sharing expertise and the role of AI

The Australian Council for Educational Research’s (ACER’s) Pru Mitchell was named winner of the inaugural Victorian Library and Information Award (VLIA). Teacher editor Jo Earp sat down with her to talk about teaching and teacher librarianship, sharing knowledge and expertise, and the role of AI, technology and digital literacy in the classroom.

School leadership Q&A: Tackling maths anxiety and busting myths
School leadership Q&A: Tackling maths anxiety and busting myths

Maths anxiety and negative attitudes towards the subject impact student engagement, learning and achievement. St Raphael’s School in Adelaide has just hosted a week-long celebration designed to tackle maths anxiety and bust myths. In our latest leadership Q&A, Principal Emma Fowler shares more.

TIMSS 2023 – Infographic: Future PD needs of science teachers
TIMSS 2023 – Infographic: Future PD needs of science teachers

The IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is a global assessment measuring student achievement in years 4 and 8. Teachers from participating schools also complete a questionnaire. Today’s infographic looks at the topics that science teachers reported needing professional development on in the future.

Podcast special: R U OK Day – 4 steps for checking in with a colleague, friend or loved one
Podcast special: R U OK Day – 4 steps for checking in with a colleague, friend or loved one

R U OK? Day is a national day of action that reminds Australians to check in with others and ask ‘are you OK?’ In this special episode, Teacher editor Jo Earp is joined by Dr Hannah Brown to talk about some of the signs that it might be time to have the conversation, how to prepare and the 4 simple steps of ask, listen, encourage action and check in. They also discuss some of the support services and resources available.

School Improvement Episode 61: Play spaces with Dr Fatemeh Aminpour
School Improvement Episode 61: Play spaces with Dr Fatemeh Aminpour

Dr Fatemeh Aminpour – Research Fellow at the City Futures Research Centre at UNSW – joins Teacher editor Jo Earp to explore how you can go about making small, thoughtful changes to playgrounds and outdoor spaces informed by student feedback and research to improve the experience for all children.

Driving school improvement through assessment
Driving school improvement through assessment

This term, thousands of 15-year-olds around Australia are sitting PISA – showing how they can apply their knowledge and skills to real-life problems and situations. Here, we look at what’s new for the 2025 cycle of this global assessment, and how teachers and leaders can use PISA insights to inform their own practice and drive school improvement.

Curriculum planning and resources – science activities
Curriculum planning and resources – science activities

When you consider your curriculum planning for the term, or the year, linking learning goals and lesson activities to key events can be a great hook, and a chance to bring students and teachers from different year levels together. Today’s article looks at free curriculum-aligned resources for National Science Week, and a school example of planning in action for this annual celebration.

School Assembly S3E11: Series 3 Final
School Assembly S3E11: Series 3 Final

Teacher Editor Jo Earp is joined by Dan McShea, Foundation Principal of Notre Dame P-12 College in Queensland, for the final episode in Series 3 of our School Assembly podcast series, where we have been following Dan’s journey as he builds a new school from the ground up.