Graduation season is here and it’s time for even the youngest graduates to walk across the stage, receive their diplomas, and toss those…
Australia’s most forward-thinking schools are already stepping forward—have you secured your place? As nominations continue for this year’s 5-Star Best Schools, The Educator is once again…
By Nupur Bagoria Many teachers don’t have a detailed financial plan for retirement—and that’s completely understandable. Day-to-day classroom demands often leave little room…
As education budgets tighten and federal relief funding expires, arts programs across the country once again find themselves on the chopping block. Recent…
Repetitio est mater studiorum. Or to say it another way, repetition is the mother of learning. And while repetition sometimes gets a bad…
Ayumi Kubo / Unsplash Celeste Rodriguez Louro, The University of Western Australia I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as…
Frustrated with reading countless AI-generated take-home essays and long ago disillusioned with scantrons, I plunged into oral exams this finals season. The classes were lower-division history courses: one comprised mostly…
Created by New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, DailySpark is an innovative 30-day digital learning experience designed to help…
When there’s a bug going around the school, teachers are usually the first to know—and the first to catch it. But not only…
As families prepare for another exciting school year, there’s one simple ingredient that can set students up for success: sleep. Quality sleep is…
A strong argumentative essay takes a lot of research and planning. Writers need to be able to explain their argument clearly, back it…
The AI field had quite a summer. Over the past few months, OpenAI, Google, and others have been in competition to release new-and-improved…
Shy students do not come to office hours nor seek the advice of faculty members. In the college classroom, they are quiet and…
Every new technology brings with it a moment of reckoning and a lot of noise. Higher education has always had its share of…
On Tuesday 9 September, Federal Education Minister, Jason Clare, announced the formation of a new Teaching and Learning Commission that will merge four…
Australia’s spending on public education continues to trail behind much of the developed world, new OECD figures reveal. The OECD’s Education at a…
You don’t have to teach English to be the sweater-polo-loving sort, or a business-minded teacher to love a good blazer. You contain multitudes—and…
Dear We Are Teachers, This year, I have my best friend’s child in my class. I love my friend and her kid dearly,…
By Teodora Pavkovic In 2024, more than 70 percent of young people had used at least one generative AI tool. And nearly half…