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…
In classrooms across Australia, the pressures facing young people are shifting, and not always in ways schools can easily see. A new report…
As education budgets tighten and federal relief funding expires, arts programs across the country once again find themselves on the chopping block. Recent…
AI hype keeps getting bigger and the offerings more complex. It’s being pitched to schools from every direction, but what really matters when…
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…
While we are likely to think of film, food, fashion, and perhaps fiction when we think of French, we’d do well to add…
Which sunny, out-of-the-classroom activities are you most excited for this summer? For those teachers a little more sports-minded, the green expanse of the…
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…
I remember talking to my students about GenAI for the first time, almost three years ago. We covered the uses and limitations of…
Shy students do not come to office hours nor seek the advice of faculty members. In the college classroom, they are quiet and…
Research shows that Australia’s principals are among the most hardworking in the world. According to the latest the Australian Principal Occupational, Health, Safety…