Curriculum implementation

In today’s article Samantha Ephraims from Kalkie State School in Queensland uses the teen fandoms of Taylor Swift and television show Stranger Things as examples of students mirroring the scientific process, and suggests that the fandoms can be used to address a decline in scientific engagement in students.

In our latest reader survey you let us know that you’d like more content on the topic of curriculum implementation. We’ve been hard at work having a look at this in the first few months of 2026, and in this episode of Teacher Staffroom, we take you through some highlights. 

To address staffing concerns and improve language provision in primary schools, an innovative program known as TCL (Teachers as Co-Learners) supports the provision of languages through daily allocation of 15-minute chunks during the school day, run by a classroom teacher with the support of a language assistant. 

In today’s podcast, CEO of the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation and Educational and Developmental Psychologist, Mandy Nayton, joins Teacher’s Dominique Beech to share frameworks to support all students to read successfully. We cover essential phonics knowledge, morphology, vocabulary and word study, and also discuss how to support older students’ literacy skills. 

St Theresa’s Primary School Albion in Melbourne’s west is strengthening science learning through a knowledge-rich curriculum focused on Australia’s Great Southern Reef. In today’s article Literacy Leader Jackie O'Connor-Croydon shares more about the P-6 program that integrates field experiences, expert-led learning and sequenced content, to deepen students’ scientific understanding. 

In early childhood settings, educators often navigate a familiar tension: how to honour children’s play as the foundation of learning while ensuring curriculum expectations are met? In today’s article, early childhood educators Helen Bartlett and Lauren Bastion explain how they built a curriculum-tracking platform that analyses children’s learning stories and generates visual curriculum insights.

Our annual Teacher magazine reader survey has concluded for another year. In this article, we’re delighted to share the winner of our $550 prize and provide you with an overview of the fantastic insights you shared with us through the survey.

Education has the potential to foster curiosity and empower future scientists through engaging hands-on learning, proven to positively impact students and teachers. In this Q&A, Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Head of Education Impact at LEGO Education explores the vision, development, and potential of LEGO® Education Science.

Last term, we shared the 2025 winners of the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge. Teacher aide David Jeffery was the mentor for one of the winning student teams. In today’s Q&A, he tells us about the benefits of the challenge for student learning, and shares advice for other schools wanting to have a crack in 2026.

‘Too often, civics and citizenship education is framed about students rather than with them.’ In his latest Teacher column Professor Martin Westwell – Chief Executive of the South Australian Department for Education – shares details of the first Active Citizenship Convention, which gave prominence to student voice.