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Our research has found a way to help the teacher shortage and boost student learning

Jenny Gore, University of Newcastle and Drew Miller, University of Newcastle Australian schools are facing unsustainable pressures. There are almost daily reports of too many students falling behind and not enough teachers to teach them. Meanwhile, the teachers we do have are stressed, overworked and lack adequate support in the classroom. Governments are well aware [...]

By |2024-06-14T17:01:50+10:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: Education, Learning|Tags: |0 Comments

Education is a torch – let teachers light the way

Dr Andrew Deuchar Australia has been in the grip of a crisis in public education for well over a decade. Teachers are burnt out and leaving the profession in large numbers. Enrolments in teaching courses have dropped and many students who start courses are not finishing their degrees. Many attempts to fix public education [...]

By |2024-06-14T17:01:25+10:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: Education|Tags: |0 Comments

How can schools make sure gifted students get the help they need?

Maria Nicholas, Deakin University; Andrew Skourdoumbis, Deakin University, and Ondine Bradbury, Monash University Earlier this month, the New South Wales government announced it would roll out programs for gifted students in every public school in the state. This comes amid concerns gifted school students are not achieving their potential. A previous review in 2019 estimated [...]

By |2024-06-14T17:00:43+10:00June 14th, 2024|Categories: Creativity, Education, Learning|Tags: |0 Comments

Is your child ‘overscheduled?’ How to get the balance right on extracurricular activities

Elise Waghorn, RMIT University It’s a weeknight, parents rush through the door from work, grab a snack, and then speed off in various directions to children’s extracurricular activities. As they do, they are managing tired and hungry kids as they all move from one thing to the next. Sound familiar? As of 2022–23, almost 50% [...]

By |2024-05-22T16:20:31+10:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: Creativity|Tags: |0 Comments

Helping more students ‘see themselves’ in the classroom

Associate Professor Suzanne Rice, Dr Alice Garner and Professor Lorraine Graham Australia’s teaching workforce doesn’t reflect the diversity of our population. That means too many Australian children are missing out on the opportunity to be taught by someone who looks like them. Only one per cent of teachers report a disability – compared with 18 [...]

By |2024-06-06T10:16:49+10:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: Education|Tags: |0 Comments

Three things schoolkids need to succeed

Associate Professor Dani Tomlin, Dr Christine Nearchou, Dr Miya St John, Dr Peter Carew and Dr Ruth Braden As the new school year begins, parents are often busy with new school shoes, covering schoolbooks and hunting out the right lunchboxes and pencil cases to get their children through. However, often overlooked in preparing children for [...]

By |2024-05-22T16:20:27+10:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: Learning|Tags: |0 Comments

How much stress is too much? A psychiatrist explains the links between toxic stress and poor health − and how to get help

Lawson R. Wulsin, University of Cincinnati COVID-19 taught most people that the line between tolerable and toxic stress – defined as persistent demands that lead to disease – varies widely. But some people will age faster and die younger from toxic stressors than others. So how much stress is too much, and what can you [...]

By |2024-05-22T15:29:43+10:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Resilience|Tags: |0 Comments

Think you’re good at multi-tasking? Here’s how your brain compensates – and how this changes with age

Peter Wilson, Australian Catholic University We’re all time-poor, so multi-tasking is seen as a necessity of modern living. We answer work emails while watching TV, make shopping lists in meetings and listen to podcasts when doing the dishes. We attempt to split our attention countless times a day when juggling both mundane and important tasks. [...]

By |2024-05-21T17:14:09+10:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: Job readiness|Tags: |0 Comments

Switching off from work has never been harder, or more necessary. Here’s how to do it

Jane Gifkins, Griffith University In the hit dystopian TV series Severance, employees at biotech corporation Lumon Industries find it easy to separate work and home life. A computer chip is inserted in their brains to act as a “mindwipe”. They leave all thoughts of home behind while at work, and completely forget about their work [...]

By |2024-05-21T17:14:06+10:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: Resilience|Tags: |0 Comments

Stuck in fight-or-flight mode? 5 ways to complete the ‘stress cycle’ and avoid burnout or depression

Theresa Larkin, University of Wollongong and Susan J. Thomas, University of Wollongong Can you remember a time when you felt stressed leading up to a big life event and then afterwards felt like a weight had been lifted? This process – the ramping up of the stress response and then feeling this settle back down [...]

By |2024-05-21T17:14:04+10:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Mental Illness|Tags: |0 Comments
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