Australian Education News for K/12 | The Educator
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Tips for a safe and smooth start to the 2025 school year
19 hours ago · As Australian students prepare to return to classrooms, education experts from Australian Catholic University have shared practical advice for a successful and stress-free start to the 2025 school year. Their guidance covers everything from early education milestones to supporting senior students, fostering inclusion, and ensuring educators’ wellbeing.
Online teaching vs the classroom: The pros and cons
Four years on from the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, schools worldwide continue to transform the way teaching and learning is delivered both in and outside of their classrooms.. Indeed, the shift to remote learning following the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 provided some crucial lessons for educators, leaders, students, parents, and policymakers – namely, what works and what doesn’t ...
New review highlights gaps in Tasmania's education system
22 hours ago · An independent review of Tasmania’s education system has identified critical gaps in literacy outcomes and staff wellbeing, urging the government to act on 14 recommendations and 36 findings to address these challenges. The review, released this week, was conducted by Vicky Baylis, former head of ...
Landmark study reveals number one factor impacting student …
The research, conducted by Emeritus Laureate Professor John Hattie from Melbourne University’s Graduate School of Education, scoured 2,100 meta-analyses over 40 years, drawing from more than 130,000 studies and involving more than 400 million students worldwide.. The culmination of this extensive research suggests the main influencing factors on …
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New guides merge teaching with learning science
New teaching guides that align classroom practices with the evidence on how students learn have been published by the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO).. Developed in collaboration with educators, the new resources focus on explicit teaching, learning objectives, classroom management, student progress, and self-regulated learning, promising further expansions in 2024.
New website helps teachers guide students’ safe tech habits
The new website is being called “a go-to hub” for early learning services and educators wanting to help children aged birth to eight years and their families be safe and active in the digital world.
Opinion: How evidence-based practices like Explicit Teaching set ...
by Sarah Marinos. When it comes to building early literacy and numeracy skills, the research is clear on what works best: explicit instruction. This method, especially when applied to foundational concepts like phonics and early numeracy, has consistently shown its effectiveness in helping students succeed.
Students learn better online than in the classroom, new study claims
To determine the effectiveness of online learning compared to classroom learning, the researchers explored the use of remote learning by undergraduate accounting students after it was introduced at a university in the Southeast Asian country during the COVID-19 pandemic.. Researchers surveyed 482 first, second, and third-year students studying an accountancy degree in the 2020 to 2021 academic ...