This month, Teacher is exploring the theme of learning spaces. Here, school designer Peter Lippman discusses designing the ‘spaces-in-between’ and collaborative learning spaces.

New research from the National Literacy Trust UK shows that a large percentage of children and young people don't see a connection between good writing skills and employability.

Teacher chats to John Burns in China about creating a school social media presence and showcasing teaching and learning via Twitter.

Setting high expectations, putting faces on the data and making student growth visible to the whole community has helped accelerate literacy learning at this school.

In the Drama classroom, this educator uses real-life situations such as mock job interviews to help build her students’ communication skills.

‘Perhaps the greatest benefit of teaching and learning through pictures is two-fold: imaginations can be primed and personal responses can be triggered as the foundation of a full critical analysis.’

Teacher chats to Dr Peter Goss about a research paper highlighting schools and education systems that are starting to do targeted teaching in a more systematic way.

Greg Whitby chats to a Sydney teacher Catherine Jean-Louis about her school’s approach to teaching literacy.

How can we engage girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths? One school is tackling the issue full steam ahead.

Voice recordings made by teachers are being used to give feedback on their lesson delivery in an effort to promote effective classroom practice.