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…
CROSS-CURRICULAR IDEAS FOR EAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT Laura Spargo suggests some practical strategies for teachers to help EAL students thrive in the international classroom.…
Engaging with history requires investigating, analyzing, and interpreting past events, establishing a chronology, and weighing evidence while considering inherent biases in the evidence.…
RETHINKING LESSON PLANS Alexandra Dragomirescu has been discovering her inner rebel as she develops a new approach to lesson planning The way things…
This article is sponsored by Hutton Consultancy For Fiona Hutton, founder and managing director, service is not a business tactic; it is a…
Realistic forms of assessment Change need not be complex. The alternative forms of assessment are already here and practised widely. He foresees the…
The disability community is diverse and full of talent, intellect, creativity, and innovation. Throughout history, disabled individuals have earned fame for innovations and…
WELCOME BACK! This year ITM will be following the debate about assessment and we start by interviewing Steffen Sommer who presents his manifesto…
We’ve all lost precious hours of our planning time hunting for free classroom videos to fit our lessons. And sometimes we end up…
By Megan Gilmour For the third consecutive year, NAPLAN results have delivered a worrying headline: one in three Australian students is not meeting basic…
Every teacher has that year when nothing seems to click and classroom challenges feel bigger than solutions. For 5th grade teacher Amy Poland,…