No school playground can ever be 100 per cent safe, but there’s plenty your school can do to make your playground as safe as possible. Steve Holden reports.

If we really want to improve student achievement we need to focus on the person who closes the classroom door and performs the teaching act – the teacher - but to do that we need to open classroom doors.

Wendy Wills considers some of the practicalities schools need to address when planning and overseeing the construction of new buildings or other facilities.

Educators have a range of data sources at their fingertips. At this Tasmanian school, the emphasis is on interpreting this data and putting it to good use.

Welcome to an exciting new chapter in the life of Teacher magazine.

This month we find out how bringing everyday items like milk crates and hay bales into primary school playgrounds could boost student fitness.

Undertaking postgraduate study, particularly a doctorate, is a big commitment, but as Terry Evans explains, there are ways to make part-time study complement your work and home lives.

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.

Your GST Compliance obligations can be complex and time consuming, so it’s well worth getting a good understanding of them.

Catherine Scott reports on research that shows people from any ability range or age group can increase their capacity to learn.