Jo Earp

Jo Earp

Editor of Teacher magazine

Jo Earp is the Editor of Teacher.

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Infographic: Hopes for your child’s education
Infographic: Hopes for your child’s education

A national survey from Australian children’s charity The Smith Family has asked families about their hopes for their child’s school education. The top theme from responses was ‘good or improved academic achievement’, while 6% gave answers related to ‘affording resources and having access to opportunities’. Find out more in this infographic.

Research news: Boosting the number of First Nations school teachers
Research news: Boosting the number of First Nations school teachers

‘Do you want to be a teacher?’ Is this a question you’ve asked your own students? A new Australian study aimed at boosting the number of First Nations teachers has found that Aboriginal students would like someone to speak to them about teaching as a possible career.

Expert Q&A: 5 essential skills for learning
Expert Q&A: 5 essential skills for learning

What are the essential skills we need for learning and life, and how can teachers help students to develop them? The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has been working with more than 30 countries to identify 5 essential skills and design a suite of free educator resources. Dr Claire Scoular shares more details in this expert Q&A.

School Assembly S3E7: The first day of school
School Assembly S3E7: The first day of school

For the last 6 months, Series 3 of our School Assembly podcast has been following Dan McShea, Foundation Principal of Notre Dame P-12 College on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The big day finally arrived, and in this episode Teacher Editor Jo Earp checks in with Dan on how that first day of the new school went.

Infographic: PISA 2022 insights – Student-teacher relationships
Infographic: PISA 2022 insights – Student-teacher relationships

One of the topics in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) student questionnaire is the quality of student-teacher relationships. This infographic looks at the responses of Australian students in the 2022 test cycle, by state and territory.

Rolling out evidence-based instruction across the primary years
Rolling out evidence-based instruction across the primary years

Over the last 5 years, staff at St Mary’s School in Geelong, Victoria, have had a focus on lifting student outcomes through evidence-based instruction. What started with Foundation phonics has now spread across the curriculum and year levels.

School Assembly S3E6: Setting the teaching direction and a Series 1 and 2 update
School Assembly S3E6: Setting the teaching direction and a Series 1 and 2 update

It’s a special, bumper episode of School Assembly as Teacher Editor Jo Earp chats to Dan McShea about setting the teaching direction, and also checks in on Ray Boyd and Rachael Lehr, who we followed in Series 1, and Series 2 principal Jo Camozatto to find out what’s been happening at their schools.

2024: Our year in podcasts
2024: Our year in podcasts

In this annual wrap-up of our year in podcasts, the editorial team at Teacher select their favourite episodes of 2024 – from our School Improvement series to the Research Files and more – and discuss why the episodes resonated with the team and Teacher listeners.

Expert Q&A: Australia’s TIMSS 2023 performance – what does the data say?
Expert Q&A: Australia’s TIMSS 2023 performance – what does the data say?

In our latest expert Q&A we’re joined by ACER Senior Research Fellow and lead author of the ‘TIMSS 2023 Australia Volume I’ report Nicole Wernert to discuss the main takeaways, and what the data say about year 4 and 8 student strengths and weaknesses in maths and science.

Infographic: TIMSS 2023 snapshot
Infographic: TIMSS 2023 snapshot

Results from the latest cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2023) have just been released. Today’s infographic looks at the year 4 and year 8 mean scores in mathematics and science for students in Australia and selected participating countries.