New international research suggests educators can play a pivotal role in fostering children's non-cognitive skills, without breaking the school budget.

Teacher speaks to four school leaders about taking on staff who've switched careers – and the practical experience they bring to the classroom.

Christine Haynes reviews a robot construction kit, and discusses why robotics still appeals to tech-savvy teachers.

The annual World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards celebrate creative projects from across the globe. Here's a snapshot of the six winners.

Look at learning or mastery in fields as diverse as sports, the arts, languages, the sciences or recreational activities and the research evidence is clear: great teachers give great feedback, says Stephen Dinham.

The year 2014 sees the 25th anniversary of ACER's Assessment of Languages Competence program.

Coming from a non-Islamic background, Andrew Turcinovich was a little apprehensive when he got a teaching job in an Islamic school. Here, he explains why he needn’t have been worried.

Our schools and our students are very good at using technology, but if we want to thrive in the 21st century, we and our students need to become very good at doing technology.

If we over-inflate our students’ self-esteem, we run the risk that the air will quickly come out of the balloon when they hit the wide world, says Stephen Dinham.

Research suggests we have too many and too few teachers, but where we do have real shortages we need both to retain locally trained teachers and attract them from overseas. Danielle Roddick reports.