Once a fortnight Teacher ventures down to Room 3 – the basement archives at the Australian Council for Educational Research.

Our latest reader submission explores the need to strengthen links between teacher professional learning and improved student outcomes.

In his latest article, Mal Lee discusses why every school must normalise the use of digital technologies.

We speak to Ray Boyd, Principal of West Beechboro Primary School in Perth. Since taking on his role, he has introduced a Professional Recognition Program to support staff learning and student outcomes have improved significantly.

Britt Gow reviews the Dino-lite handheld digital microscope and explains how it complements the science curriculum at her school.

If you want your school to grow, the school and its community needs to take charge of that growth.

Here’s a simple question: what should we be teaching our students in science classrooms that will be of most use them? The answer, as Stephen Keast and Rebecca Cooper explain, is to teach them to think for themselves, but that’s not as easy as it sounds.

As a follow-up to last week’s article ‘It’s all about teacher quality’, we look at the fundamentals of the coaching and mentoring program at Dandenong North Primary School in Melbourne's south-east.

Using iPads to collect and track data in real time has helped educators in western Sydney develop an early intervention program for children entering Kindergarten.

The research tells us that one of the most significant influencers of student learning outcomes is the quality of teaching. Which, of course, raises the critical question: what is good quality teaching?