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    School news / Richard Gill: A tour de force, a power beyond reason and an intellect beyond compare
    Leadership / Preparing to be a school leader 101
    School news / Innovative Indigenous STEM camps explode in popularity
    School news / Vic Labor offers more free TAFE courses
    School news / Labor to give Healthy Harold a $2m boost
    School news / Teachers threaten strike in SA
    School news / Is the focus on Finland’s fantastic results built on a fiction?
    School news / Tasmanian teacher strikes next week
    School news / Here's looking at you, kids - we celebrate Universal Children's Day
    School news / Teachers walk off job in Nauru protest
    School news / Vote for Australia's Unsung Heroes in education
    Leadership / How to make your staff meetings worth attending

    Most of us consider meetings to be boring, ineffective and frustrating so why do we even bother? Here are a few ideas on doing things differently.
    Technology / Preparing for the AI education revolution: this is no time for complacency
    Leadership / Movers, Shakers & Policy Makers - Professor Yong Zhao

    Leadership

    Leadership / Bigger is better: schools to tackle body image crisis

    Men of a certain generation can instantly conjure up the image of Charles Atlas.

    Leadership / Preparing to be a school leader 101

    Vice principal, deputy principal, assistant principal, whatever the title, the role is not as clearly defined as many may think. The perception we develop of this role as teachers in schools only offers us a glimpse into the actual reality and as such this is a leadership role that we can enter i...
    Leadership / Salazar’s stellar win one for the tribe

    From the moment she could hold a whiteboard marker, Stephanie Salazar knew she wanted to be a teacher.

    Jobs

    Department of Education and Training (Queensland) / Principal - Bungunya State School

    An exciting opportunity exists for a high-performing, compassionate and dedicated Principal to join the Bungunya State School community on a permanent basis. As the Principal of Bungunya State School, you will play a vital role in delivering the vision of the department. The leadership role of Pr...
    Department of Education and Training (Queensland) / Administrative Officer - Calamvale Community College

    Calamvale Community College is a P-12 College providing thirteen years of education for your child on a single campus within a supportive framework of high expectation. Our College prides itself in providing a wide range of learning opportunities across the academic, cultural and sporting fields...
    Department of Education and Training (Queensland) / Head of Curriculum - Kuraby Special School

    An exciting, temporary opportunity exists for an innovative and passionate Head of Curriculum to join the Kuraby Special School team for the 2019 school year. As the Head of Curriculum you will assist in leading/coordinating the maintenance, review and implementation of curriculum frameworks, ped...

    News

    Opinion / We need to sort our confused curriculum goals

    A national survey of 14-16-year-olds by UNICEF Australia revealed that over half were dissatisfied with the curriculum and wanted to learn more practical useful skills.
    School news / Vic Labor offers more free TAFE courses

    They say never work with children or animals, but in the final few days of the Victorian election, Labor decided to do both.
    Opinion / Turned off: the problem physics has with females

    Why don't girls study physics? A charitable response might mention theoretical physicist Dr Allesandro Strumia, who is a proponent of the power of reverse psychology: the kind of person who says 'You'll never be able to understand that,' in hopes of prompting a positive reaction.

    School news / Labor to give Healthy Harold a $2m boost
    School news / Teachers threaten strike in SA
    School news / Is the focus on Finland’s fantastic results built on a fiction?
    School news / Tasmanian teacher strikes next week
    School news / Here's looking at you, kids - we celebrate Universal Children's Day
    School news / Growing evidence that traditional school punishments may not work
    School news / Teachers walk off job in Nauru protest
    School news / Vote for Australia's Unsung Heroes in education
    School news / High school students losing maths motivation

    Technology

    Technology / Schoolkids' Dreamtime stories go hi-tech

    A group of young, talented Indigenous schoolchildren has used Minecraft and MS Paint to help tell local Dreamtime stories through augmented reality.
    Technology / Superb student teachers run lunchtime tech class
    Technology / Incredible International Space Station link-up
    Technology / How to report on student progress in the Victorian Currriculum
    Technology / College STEM fair a young designer's dream
    Technology / Students dive into a Virtual Plant Cell
    Technology / Kearnan College students learn skills to ensure they thrive in the classroom and beyond
    Technology / Eyes beyond the horizon: tech solution empowers school
    Technology / Students flock to robotics club

    Resources

    Activity / Social story - going swimming safely for teens with ASD or special learning needs
    Activity / How to make a Scribble Bot - Exploratory STEM and simple machine learning
    Worksheet / Real World Maths complete printable ebook for teens with additional learning needs

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    Events

    Professional Development / December 10, 2018 / Making connections: DigiTech Across the Curriculum

    The Digital Technologies curriculum is anchored in real world problem solving and design, and offers plenty of opportunities to explore a wide rang...
    Conference / January 16, 2019 / Australasian Tax Teachers Association Annual Conference 2019
    Professional Development / March 28, 2019 / Supporting Struggling Readers: Organising the literacy block
    Professional Development / April 4, 2019 / Contemporary Perspectives on Spelling
    Professional Development / April 30, 2019 / Developing literacy through nature and story play
    Professional Development / April 9, 2019 / 2019 Teaching History Symposium
    Conference / July 26, 2019 / 2019 HTANSW State Conference
    Conference / October 1, 2019 / 2019 HTAA National Conference
    Conference / March 30, 2019 / HTAWA Conference 2019

    Packed with ideas and inspiration

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    Prevention is better than cure! Establishing a healthy and disciplined classroom culture is paramount. Setting clear expectations and boundaries and consistency across classrooms radically reduce the need to apply draconian punishments, What is often lacking is support for a teacher when a misbehaving student refuses to play by the rules.

    — Greg Cudmore on Growing Evidence That Traditional School Punishments May Not Work

    Most of these ideal qualities will not be gauged in a Tertiary Entrance score. Furthermore how do our current teacher-training courses address and foster these qualities in prospective teachers? Our teacher selection process and teacher education programs are in need of radical review and change

    — Greg Cudmore on New Research Reveals Best Teacher Traits

    Awesome article Chloe Briand! You're a superstar!

    — Scott Cardwell on Pioneering Vr Program Re-Jigs Language Learning

    Excursion, Incursion & Camp Guide

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