5 tips to help ease your child back into school mode after the holidays Most children in Australia are going back to school this week or next. Children experience a mix of emotions when it comes to going to school. The holidays will likely disrupt usual school...
Results from the longest running large-scale international assessment of maths and science show Australia has significantly improved in Year 8 maths and science, and Year 4 science, reports Sue Thomson More than 580,000 students from 64 countries participated in the latest Trends in International Mathematics and...
Australia hasn't performed well at maths and science recently. We're about to find out if we've improved Sue Thomson, Australian Council for Educational Research Every four years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) releases data on how effective countries are in teaching...
How can I help my child come out of his shell and be his own person, rather than a follower? ...
While most State governments subsidise preschool, most parents are still charged fees by providers to make up the gap between government funding and the cost of delivering services, writes Kate Noble This November, Victoria has pledged a $169.9 boost for preschool (called kinder in Victoria) to...
Research by Penny Van Bergen, Linda J. Graham and Naomi Sweller looked at who students remember as their favourite and least favourite teachers, and why. Most of us can remember a favourite teacher. Some of us can also remember a teacher we didn’t get on with...
Early childhood education and care is widely regarded as helping children’s academic, cognitive and social development. Callie Little and Brian Byrne report the results of their recent study. Our study, published in the journal Behavior Genetics, looked into whether attending preschool or childcare influences later academic achievement. We...
Teachers told us how COVID highlighted ethical dilemmas at school. To find out from teachers what ethical issues were most pressing for them, Daniella J. Forster, reports on her research. As an educational ethicist, I research teachers’ ethical obligations. These can include their personal ethics such...
Brett Healey looks at The Very Hungry Caterpillar to show how we can shape grammar to make it more meaningful. First, a grammar quiz. Which of these sentences do you think begins the Eric Carle classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar? a) A little egg lay...
I read with progressive empathy of a young student who found the flexible, and mostly solitary, schedules imposed by online schooling to be just her cup of tea, writes Pearl Subban. It was a time away from the tedium of school, of unnecessary banter, of bullying,...
