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Teacher magazine is proud to promote quality teaching and leading, assisting school improvement at a grassroots level. We are dedicated to helping teachers, principals, and school staff improve their skills and practices using evidence-based approaches. The publication supports educators by providing timely, high-quality, independent content that they can trust and adapt for use in their own..
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1w ago
Developing children’s reading skills as they start primary school can often mean meeting children at a range of different levels. In this article, we speak with Dr Lexie Scherer who explains how the reader-response method can help teachers find that special ‘hook’ that can open a child up to the wonders of reading ..read more
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1w ago
How can schools encourage students that are capable readers, but have no interest in reading for pleasure, to read more frequently? This is the underlying question that drove the research project of English teacher and 2021 Reading Australia Fellowship recipient Edwina West ..read more
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2w ago
After her double win at the National Excellence in Teaching Awards for her work helping teachers and schools in New Zealand implement structured literacy into their practice, Amie Roberts speaks to about how this approach empowers all students ..read more
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2w ago
Offensive behaviour against school leaders in Australia is at record levels, and of those who have been subject to physical violence at work in the last 12 months students were the perpetrators in 96% of cases. In this 5-minute read we look at the results of the latest Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing Survey ..read more
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At St Joseph’s Primary School, teachers have had time to better understand how to effectively support each student to be intellectually, behaviourally, emotionally and socially engaged as learners. In last week's article, 3 teachers shared more about this opportunity and in today’s article 2 foundation teachers explain how they’ve benefited from examining their own practice ..read more
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2w ago
We know supporting a student’s welfare is a priority for school staff. What this looks like can vary based on a school’s needs and context. Recently at , we’ve been looking at new research into a number of aspects of student welfare and in this episode, we get you up to date on this latest research news ..read more
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Dr Karen Peel from the University of Southern Queensland shares findings from her new research that explores teaching for self-regulated learning, and shares her decision-making matrix informing a self-regulatory approach to classroom behaviour management ..read more
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How can we support the teaching and learning of mathematics in ways that can enhance student engagement, participation and thus learning? In this reader submission, David Chinofunga shares findings from a 3-year study he’s been leading at James Cook University focused on supporting the teaching and learning of maths in Queensland secondary schools ..read more
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As staff and students around Australia settle into the 2024 school year, we’ve been busy at sharing content to help you with your planning. In this first episode of Staffroom for 2024, we bring you up to speed with a selection of these stories so you don’t miss a thing ..read more
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‘Successful learning is built on people recognising your abilities and strengths and helping you to build on them.’ We speak to Sue Lowry, winner of the Telstra ARIA Music Teacher Award, about how she is delivering quality music education to students with special needs, and how they’re smashing expectations ..read more