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By Associate Professor Clare Newton, Associate Professor Ian McShane, Dr Benjamin Cleveland, Dr Philippa Chandler, Dr Ruth Aston, Professor Janet Clinton and Sarah Backhouse When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close in 2020, the staff at Doveton College in Melbourne picked up the phone. “Our staff made over 19,000 phone calls during the second [...]
By Rigissa Megalokonomou, The University of Queensland and Sofoklis Goulas, Stanford University Remote learning online has been a common tool in the battle against COVID-19. School and university campus closures have affected over 1.5 billion learners in 165 countries. The reduced need for students to be in their physical classrooms gives them greater autonomy, with [...]
By Naomi Barnes, Queensland University of Technology The central role of schools in the Brisbane COVID-19 outbreak means the virus might move through the community differently from previous outbreaks. Previously, the focus has been on the spread of the virus through the aged care sector and via service workers. People in education systems move and [...]
By Nicole (Nikki) Brunker, University of Sydney Adding to the clamour of argument over whether schools should be open to all during lockdown is confusion in terminology. Using the term “home schooling” to describe schooling during lockdown is disrespectful to both teachers and home schoolers. Home schooling requires parents to seek registration for their child [...]
By Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University Parents at a loss to find activities for their children during COVID lockdowns can encourage them to escape into a book. New research shows how reading books can help young people escape from their sources of stress, find role models in characters and develop empathy. Recent media reports have [...]
Join host Andrew Fuller and guest Angela White as they discuss adolescent success. In this episode: What is adolescent success? 2020 caused a major rethinking for practices of wellbeing - What's working effectively in schools, what's not? Practical takeaways for schools to implement Listen now below: Host: Andrew Fuller, Clinical psychologist and family therapist, [...]
Ken Purnell, CQUniversity Australia New South Wales recently announced it would trial different start and finish times for various year levels in primary schools. The reported aims include reducing traffic congestion and providing more flexibility to certain families, including shift workers. In Queensland, principals already have the option to stagger the start of their school [...]
David Roy, University of Newcastle and Jill Duncan, University of Newcastle With more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus emerging, teachers and students have been required to wear masks in high school classrooms. It was mandatory in Greater Sydney and all of Victoria before the recent switch to remote learning under lockdowns. Mask wearing has [...]
Another Australian curriculum review, and yet more politicians balk at the word “invasion”. The conservative political outcry follows the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority’s recent proposal that First Nations peoples’ experience of British colonisation be recognised and taught as invasion. The Federal Minister for Education, Alan Tudge, responded to the proposal by saying: “Honour[ing] [...]
Linda Rowan, Massey University and Fiona Murray, Massey University As university students wait on their mid-year exam results, some will no doubt be thinking about more than just passing. Since COVID-19 pushed teaching and testing online last year, the issue of cheating has come into sharper focus. Recent reports of University of Auckland students allegedly [...]
