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

The teaching profession needs to be 'inspired by innovation and research', says Andreas Schleicher. Read more about his special video message at ACER's Research Conference in today's Teacher article.

Tasmanian academics have launched a new framework designed to build the capacity of STEM teachers and support them in selecting resources.

A school can live or die on the strength of its response to a crisis, so it pays to be prepared, as Katrina Byers explains.

A creative person will possess skills such as critical thinking and divergent thinking, will be able to imagine at higher levels than those around them. Veronica Harris explains how you can plan for and assess creativity in your classroom.

Postgraduate study is a great way for teachers to develop new skills to improve their classroom practice and further their careers. Rebecca Leech spoke with educators who have returned to study.

If you want your students to evaluate, generalise, hypothesise, synthesise and analyse information rather than simply recall it, you might be ready for problem-based learning.

The more you know about how the brain works, the better will be your teaching, says David Sousa.

The positive or negative things we say and do as teachers in the classroom have a great influence on student learning – which is a good reason, says Rob McEwan, to plan for positive attitudes.

Catherine Pearn discusses how to approach maths anxiety in the classroom.