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How teachers’ self-fulfilling prophecies, known as The Pygmalion Effect, influence students’ success Most perceptions of students’ educational success are focussed on the students’ personal qualities (perseverance, self-efficacy, work ethic, goal setting, grit, resilience, intelligence, social and emotional stability, enthusiasm, creativity etc.) but there are other factors at play in this recipe. In our paper on The Matthew Effect (Boyd & MacNeill, 2020), the authors examined how various external factors enhanced some students’ educational options. Interestingly, teachers’ beliefs in the form of self-fulfilling prophecies, which have been labelled The Pygmalion Effect, can also be a game changer in selected students’ educational options.

2020 VIC Premier's Sustainability Awards With just under two weeks to go until entries close, there’s still time to enter the Premier’s Sustainability Awards.

$15K for Copyright Agency 2020 Reading Australia Fellowship winner Karen Yager, a teacher with more than 25 years’ experience, has been awarded the 2020 Reading Australia Fellowship for Teachers of English and Literacy.

Rethinking dashboard analytics Data is everywhere, the effect can be minimal.

Low SES students’ pathway to UNSW Low socioeconomic status background students who attend targeted Gateway schools in NSW will have a new path open to them for entry into the UNSW

The rise of flexible technology in the education sector So, what role does video and audio technology play in the modern learning experience?

MLC Centre wins NSW Architecture award The MLC School Senior Centre by BVN won the William E Kemp Award for Educational Architecture in the 2020 New South Wales Architecture Awards.

Remote learning benefitted wellbeing, student voice and gifted and talented students It was good for most

NGS Super 2020 Scholarship Awards reimagined Members can apply for the chance to win one of six $5,000 awards.

Future workers will have jobs if they can innovate Robots and artificial intelligence will take some of the less skilled work from humans but workers that can innovate will continue to thrive.

Funexpected maths game created with UC Berkeley The developer’s games seek to teach complex maths concepts via a beautiful interface, all underpinned by educational research.

Victorian STEM school wins architecture award Whittlesea Tech School has a progressive approach to education and the school’s built environment needed to reflect that.