If you want to earn a high income in Australia, you’re often better off having no degree than having a bachelor degree in teaching.
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Teachers get paid a decent starting salary but they soon fall behind other professionals the longer they stay in the job.
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Play and learning are one and the same for Mbendjele children.
Relative to other careers, bright students who were surveyed didn’t see teaching as coming with career challenges.
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Our top-scoring students aren’t choosing to become teachers, and that has flow-on effects for the students who come after them.
Whose responsibility is it to manage technology-related distractions in class?
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Some students who participated in a study of technology in the classroom believed instructors are at fault if students turn to technology when they are bored.
Researchers only have access to limited facilities and support for research.
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Given Africa’s projected population growth, management of its environment must be a global priority
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A large number of young people are reluctant to accept evolution. How we teach the topic might be a key reason why.
Simply taking lessons outside can do wonders for children’s education and well-being.
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Taking everyday lessons outside can improve well-being and engagement, yet it is not as used as often as it could be.
The quality of teacher-student rapport is not always the stuff of Hollywood fantasies but how it’s handled still matters. Here, the final scene from Dead Poets Society.
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Personal interaction between teacher and students impacts learning, just as it does in the movies.
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Virtual reality can allow teachers and students to explore coral reefs or the inside of cells without leaving the classroom.
Teaching status matters, but in Australia, this seems to be a low priority.
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An inquiry into the status of the teaching profession lasted just four months before being shelved with no clear way forward. Is this the best teachers can hope for?
We talk about exhaustion and burnout, but not heartbreak.
A dream teaching job with seemingly great perks may not be worth it when turbulence creates crushing heartache for educators.
A new grant from the Gates Foundation to promote ‘high-quality’ curriculum comes with strings that could constrain teachers.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to get schools to adopt a “high-quality” curriculum. But the effort will constrain teachers and stifle creativity, an education scholar argues.
Mixed reality can enhance teaching in ways not possible with pen and paper, or even virtual reality.
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Instead of holograms replacing teachers, we’re seeing teachers using holograms to enhance the learning experience, particularly in disciplines such as health sciences and medicine.
It’s in everyone’s best interest to have high quality teachers.
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Many new teachers leave the profession after only five years. Here are six steps schools can take to better support new teachers.
Helping - but is it enough?
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Teachers’ understanding of dyslexia is mostly limited to behaviour, new survey finds.
Snapchat has utility in laboratory settings.
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The use of the popular mobile application for multimedia sharing in a large laboratory class was shown to enhance the students’ learning experiences.
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Is it really the best use of time for children, teachers and parents?
It makes sense for children in the early stages of learning to read to be given decodable books.
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Children in the early stages of learning to read should be given decodable books to practise and generalise their developing alphabetic skills.
While robots in classrooms are still very new, some early examples of success are emerging.
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Robots in the classroom are highly engaging and motivating for students, and can have a cascading effect on learning across an entire school.
Piling on the pressure?
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Rigorous they may be, but the new style of exam still leaves students with gaps in their learning skills.