More than 700 educators from across the nation have convened for compelling webinar titled 'The Power of Direct Instruction', presented by founder and director of Good to Great Schools Australia (GGSA ...

For some time Australia’s ‘education state’ has come under fire for its lack of commitment to drive evidence-based teaching practice at scale, but today Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll has ...

For too long Australian education has been wrongly guided by anecdotes and intuition rather than the evidence about what works best in teacher practice, an expert has said. Dr Mark Carter, senior ...

Collaborative mentoring should be an everyday practice for all teachers, such is its power to lift professional efficacy, strengthen collegial bonds and keep staff in schools, new research has ...

‘Anarchist educator’ Phil Beadle was awarded UK Teacher of the Year in 2004. He was a standout on the UK TV series The Unteachables (screened here on the ABC), as the rock and roll teacher who was ...

Australian schools are at risk of falling for an increasingly popular method of maths teaching that lacks a credible evidence base and is rooted in ineffective discovery learning, a prominent school ...

NSW schools spent $250 million delivering the state’s ‘COVID Intensive’ tutoring program in 2022, but with no measurable impact on students’ academic achievement or attendance to show for it, an ...

South Australia’s public education system is charting a bold new future in policy and practice, distinguishing it from other jurisdictions, since the State Labor Government came to power in March 2022 ...

Teachers should scrap weekly spelling lists that rely on rote learning and instead explicitly teach children spelling rules and conventions, a literacy researcher has urged.

‘Bizarre’ and ‘contradictory’ is how one school leader describes the criticism some academics have cast at AERO as an independent review of the organisation gets underway. Australian academics and ...

Last week’s announcement by Education Minister Ben Carroll that Victorian primary schools will shift to a structured approach to teaching literacy using phonics in F-2 from next year has given ...

Every year, a quarter of a million Australian students find themselves overwhelmed by the high-stakes pressure of Year 12 exams - an outdated system that promises to “define their future,” but at what ...