Loneliness happens whenever a person feels a discrepancy between their desired and actual connections. It’s different to social isolation, which involves a person having objectively fewer social contacts, social roles, and relationships. And it’s different from being alone, which is an objective experience of being...
Sometimes the best way to help a teenager through exam stress is to celebrate progress before the work is finished, writes motivational speaker Lizzie Williamson....
In other words, students who get better at handling adversity in academic life may also become better at handling disruption. And students who get better at handling disruption at school may become better at handling adversity....
The challenge for education is not to erect an artificial barrier between culture deemed worthy and culture deemed popular. It is to give students the skills to recognise the difference between simply consuming something and understanding it....
Many students in years 7 and 8 begin choosing their own electives at school for the first time, write researchers Donna Pendergast and Katherine Main. These are typically subjects such as technology, arts, languages and music, that are taken alongside core units, including English, maths...
While we tend to focus on building adolescents’ knowledge, starting conversations about consent as early as possible, and having them as often as possible, is the best approach....
Ready for the next step after beginner books? The Your Next Read Gold series offers funny, engaging chapter books for emerging readers aged 7–9....
How can schools respond to excessive communication demands, verbal abuse and threatening behaviour. Public schools are also taking new steps to try and curtail abusive parents....
Results from the latest international test of 15-year-olds have prompted another round of headlines suggesting there are serious problems with Australia’s academic results....
Recently, write Vaughan Cruickshank and Nicholas Hookway, a group of Australian primary school principals called for more male primary school teachers, saying boys needed more “male role models”....
