Graduation season is here and it’s time for even the youngest graduates to walk across the stage, receive their diplomas, and toss those…
Outside school hours care (OSHC) is becoming more complex, with rising expectations around service quality, consistency and communication. For many providers, the challenge…
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…
A growing body of research shows that young men are finding it increasingly tough to find their place in the world and build…
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…
Jirout and Klahr (2012) show classrooms that encourage open-ended questions foster deeper engagement. Loewenstein’s Information-Gap Theory (1994) shows that learning is strongest when…
A sense of wonder If we are being serious about the development of a meaningful curriculum that is both intended and enacted (William…
Dear We Are Teachers,My principal called this morning and said that a “community member” sent her a picture of me that a local…
DAVID INGRAM Consilium Education library specialist, Sal Flint, continues her column – School Readers – in which she talks to educators about their favourite books. This…
A different kind of challenge When I began my role as Head of AI at Globeducate, I was determined not to become the…
From Year 9 (G8) onwards, all pupils have access to Google Gemini for Education, a secure school-specific version, designed with safeguarding and data…
WHERE ARE WE GOING WITH AI? In a special end-of-year edition, ITM takes time out to look at how teaching, learning and assessment…
A NEW AGE OF ORACY? In a series of online essays, Jonathan Wheeldon has been exploring the wider implications of AI for all…
But are these early adopters jumping the gun and moving too fast into an unknown world of potentially biased algorithms and threats of…
The Zones of Regulation is a widely used framework in classrooms and therapy settings that helps kids recognize their emotions and learn strategies…