Education Matters

As we move towards the end of another school year we also begin to prepare for our children’s transition to the next year level, a...

Note: This opinion piece was published on The Educator Australia, 27 September, 2019 here. Character education has become an important topic in the world of...

How much enjoyment do children get from just playing - running, hiding, chasing, climbing, imagining and role playing? No expensive toys, no electronic games or...

In a time in education where standardised and summative assessment seem to reign supreme and the pursuit of OP1s, ATARS of 99.95 and A+ on...

I’m sure you remember your first childhood friends. The ones you were excited to see when you arrived at school, who made you laugh, shared...

I recently returned from an overseas trip to the United Kingdom and, while recovering from the obligatory ‘jet-lag’, found myself wondering how the lack of...

Based on the premise that talk is essential to writing, Ros Wilson, developer of the Big Write approach, states that children can only write using...

Note: This article first appeared on The Educator Australia on 13 August, 2019 here.  Multiple studies have explored the influence workplace culture has on staff...

In today’s day and age it would be easy to believe that the teenagers of the world are a disturbed bunch. Articles on adolescent stress,...