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Teacher’s Bookshelf: School connection and meaning
Teacher’s Bookshelf: School connection and meaning

In ‘The Connection Curriculum: Igniting Positive Change in Schools Through Sustainable Curriculum’ Matt Pitman explores the role of connection in fostering students’ academic achievement and wellbeing. This exclusive extract for Teacher readers focuses on one of 3 key landmarks – meaning.

Teacher’s Bookshelf: Twice-exceptional students – the perplexity of high ability without high-level outcomes
Teacher’s Bookshelf: Twice-exceptional students – the perplexity of high ability without high-level outcomes

A new book from Professor John Munro shares high-impact strategies that can be the focus of improving high-level outcomes for gifted and talented students in school. In this exclusive extract for Teacher readers, we share a snippet from Chapter 5, Twice-exceptional students.

School Improvement Episode 54: Teacher research informing practice
School Improvement Episode 54: Teacher research informing practice

In this episode of School Improvement Editor Jo Earp is joined by Jake Compton, Director of Academic Culture and a teacher in the Senior School at Canterbury College, which has been working with academics at the UQ Learning Lab since 2020. We’ll be talking about some of the projects, how they’ve evolved over the years, and the challenges along the way.

Unpacking the science of reading – teaching the unconstrained skills
Unpacking the science of reading – teaching the unconstrained skills

A new paper by ACER’s Greta Rollo and Dr Kellie Picker unpacks the science of reading. In a 3-part series for Teacher, they explain each of the components that make up the science of reading, and share implications for teaching. This final article explores the unconstrained skills.

Unpacking the science of reading – teaching the constrained skills
Unpacking the science of reading – teaching the constrained skills

A new paper by ACER’s Greta Rollo and Dr Kellie Picker unpacks the science of reading. In a 3-part series for Teacher, they explain each of the components that make up the science of reading, and share implications for teaching. This second article delves into constrained skills.

Global Education Episode 24: Teaching for creativity across the curriculum
Global Education Episode 24: Teaching for creativity across the curriculum

In this episode of our Global Education podcast, Editor Jo Earp talks to Lead Practitioner Sarah Childs and Associate Professor Kerry Chappell about their involvement in England’s Creativity Collaboratives partnership program, including the important role of teachers as action researchers, and details of the Toolkit resources developed to help others.

Aussie kids invited to ‘think outside the bottle’ in national primary schools’ competition
Aussie kids invited to ‘think outside the bottle’ in national primary schools’ competition

Fair go, respect, inclusion and mateship – working collaboratively in a team. These are the Aussie values primary school children are being encouraged to demonstrate in a national schools’ competition to create an innovative way of re-using plastic bottles – with $20,000 worth of classroom stationery prizes up for grabs.

Unpacking the science of reading – what the research says
Unpacking the science of reading – what the research says

A new paper by ACER’s Greta Rollo and Dr Kellie Picker unpacks the science of reading. In a 3-part series for Teacher, they explain each of the components that make up the science of reading, and share implications for teaching. This first article provides an overview of all 6 components.

Researching education: 5 further readings on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education
Researching education: 5 further readings on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education

In celebration of NAIDOC week 2024, we’re sharing 5 pieces of content on the topic of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education – including a helpful guide to selecting appropriate resources for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures, languages, and more, respectively and effectively.

Infographic: Australian school growth
Infographic: Australian school growth

The annual Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report on the number of schools, students and staff across Australia in 2023 has been released. In this infographic, we look at some of the latest figures and compare them to the same figures recorded for 2022.