Stopping children from bullying each other starts with their understanding of it; telling them what bullying is and involves assists in stopping bullying from happening.
Bullying prevention expert Dr Lesley-Anne Ey says that bullying takes place in all forms from an early age. She says children have limited understanding of bullying and that more needs to be done to explicitly educate them. Read More
We’re often told to look to Finland for direction on education but the tables have been turned with the Nordic nation adopting National Excellence in School Leadership Initiative’s (NESLI) Staff Wellbeing Toolkit. Read More
The National Education Summit will hold it’s inaugural Queensland event in 2019, bringing a comprehensive professional development program to educators 31 May – 1 June at the Convention. Centre Read More
John Hattie has really put Melbourne on the map education wise and you can access the opportunity to work with the man himself through a Menzies Fellowship. Read More
New resources, designed for use in levels three to ten at Victorian schools, give teachers a full package of support to teach students about fertility and assisted reproductive treatment. Read More
Design has many names. Many ruses. So many different acronyms. At its heart, though, it seeks to do the same thing, whatever the label. Design is about solving problems. It is about solutions. Testing solutions. Improving solutions. Read More
Swinburne University of Technology researchers have started on a project, titled ‘Standing out from the Crowd’, targeting 20 urban and 10 rural Victorian secondary schools and seeking to encourage women in STEM. Read More
A help desk is perhaps the definition of tedium but for the Catholic School system in NSW employing Serena has taken most of the pain out of resolving, for the greater part, lost passwords and usernames. Read More
Professor Tim Brown has been named Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, his contributions to Year 12 and tertiary entrance assessments in Victoria and the system for ATAR rank among his achievements. Read More
Businesses are open to employing people with disabilities but many are unsure how to go about it. There’s a huge untapped pool of talented people especially in the education service, social care and healthcare industries. Read More
In his book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, (2009) Ken Robinson writes “Students are educated in batches, according to age, as if the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture.” Read More
St John Ambulance Victoria has released its First Aid Action Hero app, the first Australian-produced First Aid training app specifically designed for primary school-aged children. Read More
Funding from The National Excellence in School Leadership Initiative has been made available to both teaching and non-teaching female staff working in Australia’s K–12 education sector. Read More
