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Emu Gully Adventure Education: Transformative learning through challenge and adventure
Emu Gully Adventure Education: Transformative learning through challenge and adventure

Emu Gully Adventure Education offers a unique and transformative approach to education that takes students out of the classroom and into the great outdoors, using adventure and challenge as powerful tools for growth and development. Whether you’re a teacher seeking a one-day experience or a multi-day adventure camp, Emu Gully offers options that can be customised to fit the specific goals and objectives of your class.

How to choose a school camp for your students
How to choose a school camp for your students

Looking for a school camp to provide your students with learning breakthroughs and memories they’ll cherish for years to come? There are lots of things to consider when deciding on a school camp, so to help make it a little easier, here are some things you need to know to make an informed decision.

MusicApprentice: Addressing Australia’s music education crisis with teacher-led EdTech
MusicApprentice: Addressing Australia’s music education crisis with teacher-led EdTech

Recent research reveals a decline in high-quality music education availability, and that music teachers are particularly vulnerable to burnout. In response to these challenges, Gradus Software has developed MusicApprentice through extensive consultation with music educators over several years. 

Teaching resource: What is explicit instruction?
Teaching resource: What is explicit instruction?

In our most recent annual Teacher reader survey, many of you asked for more content and support in the area of explicit instruction. So, in this article, we delve into a new practice guide from the Australian Educational Research Organisation (AERO) on teaching explicitly.

Teacher Awards 2023: Improving student learning and progress
Teacher Awards 2023: Improving student learning and progress

The winners of the 2023 Teacher Awards have been announced. In this article, we speak with the winner of the Improving Student Learning and Progress Award, Catherine Young from Newman College in Western Australia, about how she uses data to monitor student progress and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.

Adapting school leadership to your context
Adapting school leadership to your context

A common goal for all schools is to continually improve practice and lift student outcomes. Precisely how leaders respond to this complex challenge is impacted by many internal and external contextual factors, including student needs and the expertise of the principal, teachers and support staff.

Helping teachers to design a rubric – a school example
Helping teachers to design a rubric – a school example

‘At Dromana College we had an issue with only a few teachers having the confidence to write a decent rubric…As a school, we therefore came up with our own guidelines on how to construct rubrics for years 7-10.’ In this reader submission, Assessment and Reporting Coordinator Jodi Wilson shares how the Victorian secondary school has been helping teachers to improve their own rubric design skills.

Encouraging all students to read for pleasure
Encouraging all students to read for pleasure

How can schools encourage students that are capable readers, but have no interest in reading for pleasure, to read more frequently? This is the underlying question that drove the research project of English teacher and 2021 Reading Australia Fellowship recipient Edwina West.

Researching education: 5 further readings on family-school relationships
Researching education: 5 further readings on family-school relationships

In this series, we take a look at some further readings available on a particular topic, including open access research papers from various online databases, and Teacher archive content you might not have come across yet.

Tackling education challenges – scaling up pioneering projects
Tackling education challenges – scaling up pioneering projects

Each year the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards recognise pioneering projects that are having an impact on the ground. The recipients for 2022 were announced last month and in today’s article we look at the winners.