Resources & Research

"...Their deep expertise should be shared to help other teachers develop..."

"...If there is no career path for those who truly master teaching, there are few incentives for teachers to improve..."

"...Australia must do better in school education..."

"...Making better use of Australia’s top teachers will improve student outcomes..."

As school-after-school pivot to digital learning in the face of the COVID-19 crisis (now in more than 150 countries), digital learning has become the lifeline for education. But the opportunities that digital technologies offer go well beyond a stop-gap solution during the crisis.

Digital technology allows us to find entirely new answers to what people learn, how people learn, where people learn and when they learn. Technology can enable teachers and students to access specialised materials well beyond textbooks, in multiple formats and in ways that can bridge time and space.

Resource links in pages 18-20 may be a good place to start.

"People often come to our school - and we’re happy to open up ourselves to anybody and see what we do - and sometimes they think there is going to be a big idea or an earth-shattering way we go about teaching, but there are just lots of little things we go about doing as effectively as we can.”

Thanks to its steady improvement in VCE results over the past decade, Ballarat Clarendon College has been awarded The Age’s 2020 Schools that Excel award for non-government schools in rural/regional Victoria.

This Spotlight identifies best practice evidence to guide teachers on setting up online learning and advice teachers can give to parents during this process.

Key consideration is given to principles demonstrated to benefit student outcomes and wellbeing. As such, this Spotlight is written from the perspective of teachers.

We have long known that loneliness and social isolation cause people significant emotional pain and can have a negative impact on their health and wellbeing. Now, with COVID-19, we are being told to socially distance. This risks making the problems associated with loneliness worse.

It’s important we focus on keeping up social connections even while physically distancing.

This factsheet highlights some short-term tips on how we can be healthy social humans in these unusual times.

Trial->Turbulence->Transition-> Transformation is the cycle of change we have all been going through