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25.01.2022 EducationReview New book draws on the science of learning for study success | Scott Francis As the end high school approaches for students and high-stakes exams are soon to take place, knowing how to study most effectively could mean the difference between strong and outstanding grades. A new book titled Your High Performance Guide ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//new-book-draws-on-the/ #DrMichaelNagel, #Neuroscience, #ScottFrancis, #StudySkillsForSuccess

24.01.2022 Practice makes perfect, or so they tell us. And so, it astounds and troubles me to my core that we continue to raise kids in homes and schools where the art of lying is something that’s practiced so heavily that our children master it by the time that they reach adulthood. As adults, we either make ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//kids-who-lie-how-scho/

24.01.2022 Understanding the importance of motivation in education has never been more significant than now. Studies have shown that both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation directly correlates with an improvement in students’ academic performance and grades. However, the current educational discord as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that, in order to revive Australian students ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//motivation-matters-wh/ #COVID19, #Motivation, #SuccessTutoring

23.01.2022 Children with same-sex parents outperform their peers on national standardised tests, a new study has shown. Researchers from the Universities of Melbourne and Queensland looked at data from Dutch population registers and found that the advantage amounted to 13 per cent of a standard deviation, which is comparable to the advantage associated with both parents ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//students-with-same-se/

23.01.2022 Health experts say there is light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel as Australia recorded its lowest daily rise in new infections in over three months. There were 16 new infections reported on Monday 11 in Victoria, four in NSW and one in Queensland. "This light at the end of the tunnel is ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//experts-see-light-at-/

22.01.2022 Working with remote and rural leaders has become an absolute joy for the Eduinfluencers team. The beauty and sometimes harshness of the locations is definitely part of it, but even more so we are spurred on by what we hear from our connections and rural networks about a lack of professional learning opportunities that make ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//a-tailored-approach-t/

20.01.2022 Research conducted by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) has concluded that 1.25 million Australian parents believe their children fell behind in learning because of the COVID-19 school closures. The paper, Parents’ perspectives on home-based learning in the covid-19 pandemic, covers a wide-range of topics, including how much and the type of support they received ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//report-finds-1-25-mil/ #COVID19, #SchoolClosures, #TheCentreForIndependentStudies

19.01.2022 Children born via caesarean section perform just as well at school as those who are vaginally birthed. Previously, research suggested C-section babies often had different microbes in their gut, which may influence their academic performance. But new research by academics in New Zealand found no link between birth type and test scores achieved by students during their ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//no-link-between-birth/

18.01.2022 Research from the Macquarie University Business School suggests it’s time to rethink our attitude towards personal discipline in education, something it says has been out of vogue for decades now. Self-discipline is critically important in creating a meaningful and successful life, and it’s always surprising when you come across a person from your past who ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//discipline-is-more-im/ #AcademicSuccess, #Discipline, #MacquarieUniversityBusinessSchool, #SelfDiscipline

18.01.2022 The NSW Government will relax restrictions around weddings, school and community sport after the state announced its third day without community transmission of coronavirus. Only one case was diagnosed up to 8pm on Wednesday a returned traveller in hotel quarantine. As a result of consistently declining numbers, premier Gladys Berejiklian announced restrictions could begin to slowly ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//covid-19-nsw-to-relax/

17.01.2022 A trial program targeting NSW regional schools with the worst teacher shortages will start in term one next year. NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said it was the second pilot program designed to bring more teachers to regional NSW. "It can be difficult to attract and retain teachers in rural and remote areas for a ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//trial-to-get-more-tea/

17.01.2022 In trying to teach self-management to young students, who had been identified as being impulsive and unruly, Donald Meichenbaum found he was able to help these students manage and control their impulsive behaviours when he applied the strategy of self-talk. Citing Brenda Manning, Meichenbaum reported that self-talk had been successfully used to achieve cognitive behaviour ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//self-talk-sequence-le/

15.01.2022 We know that if you don’t make critical thinking explicit it just doesn't happen. It has to become, itself, something that is taught," UQ's Debra Brown states in our exclusive interview.

15.01.2022 After healthcare workers like paramedics and nurses, Australians want primary school teachers to be next in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine jab. That was one of the findings of an Australian National University survey that sought out attitudes of more than 3000 people on vaccine distribution. When looking at occupations, Aussies thought paramedics should ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//who-should-be-at-the-/

15.01.2022 If you’ve ever been part of education circles in the Northern Territory, the name Adam Voight is widely recognisable. Having spent a lot of his professional life teaching there, he worked at a range of schools and became a well-respected principal of a number of them. In 2012, Voigt changed courses slightly when he founded ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//this-s-has-got-to-sto/ #AdamVoigt, #AustralianEducationSystem, #RestorativePrinciples

14.01.2022 Australia's average internet speed criticised for being "treacherously slow" in a new report on e-learning infrastructure in OECD countries.

12.01.2022 When Ellen Robinson graduated from her Bachelor of Education (Birth to Five Years) in 2017 she thought it would be the end of her university education in fact, it was just the start. Ellen felt the need to continue to learn and advance her career, so she decided to head back to uni at ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//ellen-robinson-on-cho/

12.01.2022 An internal government report has called for the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) to be held at the beginning of education degrees, so students aren’t potentially wasting their time. In comes after revelations that almost one in 10 prospective teachers fail to pass the test so they can graduate. Roughly 84 ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//controversial-lantite/ #ATAREntryScores, #DanTehan, #LANTITE

10.01.2022 EducationReview Soft skills key for the careers of tomorrow | Dr Alexia Maddox A new study conducted by Oxford University Press surveyed 1000 recent graduates and found that 88 per cent of them believed soft skills were necessary to their future career success. Even as these graduates prepare to enter an increasingly automated workforce, ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//soft-skills-key-for-t/ #CreativeProblemSolving, #Creativity, #CriticalThinking, #SoftSkills

09.01.2022 It is important to know, and accept, that resilience is not a DNA imperative and resilience cannot be developed as readily if students (or anyone for that matter) only tend to engage in easy goals and only wish to continually experience easy outcomes. Easy goals that result in little effort, and achieve quick and undemanding ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//basics-to-brilliance-/

06.01.2022 Landmark reforms to Australia’s early childhood system would provide a significant boost the economy as it recovers from COVID-19, Jay Weatherill says. The former South Australian premier and Nicola Forrest, co-founder of Minderoo Foundation, are urging governments to make childcare universal and affordable for parents. Speaking at the National Press Club, Weatherill warned that Australia ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//current-system-punish/

05.01.2022 As we near the end of the school year, graduation ceremonies look set to be yet another casualty of COVID. Yet if any cohort deserves the tears and cheers of a full ceremony, it’s this year’s Year 12s. There’s the obvious reason of course. Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on their final and, arguably, most significant ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//against-all-odds-why-/ #ClassOf2020, #GenerationZ, #Year12

04.01.2022 Early education advocates are urging the Morrison government to prioritise childcare funding in its forthcoming budget. Thrive by Five argues that doing so will set families and the economy up to emerge from the pandemic in better shape. Group chief executive and former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill said every $1 million spent on childcare ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//pre-budget-push-for-m/

04.01.2022 A new initiative launched in Kalgoorlie by Curtin University’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAWA) will keep the blindness of Trachoma away for the area's mainly Indigenous kids.

01.01.2022 The Australian Education Union (AEU) has responded to the latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) report on worldwide education indicators, saying Australia’s poor ranking in several areas reflects inadequate government funding policies. These indicators include resource equity, staffing, and student opportunity and outcomes. According to the AEU, the Effective Policies, Successful Schools report shows ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//latest-oecd-report-hi/ #AEU, #OECD, #Resourcing, #StudentEquity

01.01.2022 School students across an entire Victorian country council will receive letters from their local police officers each week as part of touching tribute to fallen Leading Senior Constable Dennis Cox. Cox, 47, tragically died earlier this month when he was hit by a car while riding his bike on the outskirts of his home town of ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//forces-school-letter-/

01.01.2022 The Oxford Australian 2020 Children’s Word of the Year (CWOTY) is ‘virus’, shining a light on how deeply the COVID-19 pandemic, remote learning and school closures have impacted students this year. To come to this decision, children’s language experts analysed in excess of 50,000 short stories written by three million Australian children for 2020’s Storython ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//what-the-2020-childre/ #OxfordUniversityPress, #Storyathon

01.01.2022 A muck-up day scavenger hunt devised by students at a Sydney private school has made headlines due to the string of illegal tasks it challenged revellers to complete. The list, created by Year 12 students at Shore School in North Sydney and dubbed the Triwizard Shorenament, was reported to police earlier this week. It contained ... https://www.educationreview.com.au//ire-over-school-leave/