In an exclusive Teacher podcast, Professor Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research, discusses quality and equity with the honourable Julia Gillard.

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.

Education student Suzie Alev tells her story about working with seven-year-old Evan and his family to address the challenges of autism.

In our highly risk averse society it’s surely time, says Simon Gipson, to expose children to challenge, and give them a degree of autonomy, responsibility and trust.

The benefits of quality learning in the early years and re-emerging gender issues in mathematics are among the hot topics that will be explored at this year's ACER Research Conference.

Shane Spence, creator and director of meTV, gives Teacher a special, behind the scenes glimpse into the making of the daily in-school television program.

It's normally the students who use coloured pattern blocks, but in this workshop, it was the educators who used them to visually represent school staffing structures.

Switching on captions is in this Melbourne school’s policy because, as the principal says, ‘good teaching practice for deaf kids, is good teaching practice for all kids.’

A recent survey indicated that school teaching is viewed as an honest and ethical profession by a large percentage of Australians. See where school teachers rank amongst other professions in this infographic.

A successful program supporting remote Indigenous students in the Northern Territory has proved that tapping into resources and support outside the school gates can improve student outcomes.