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Infographic: Young People's Mental Health And Wellbeing During Covid-19, Zoe Kaskamanidis Oct 2022

Infographic: Young People's Mental Health And Wellbeing During Covid-19, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

A new report from the Australian Human Rights Commission details the findings of a project exploring children and young people’s experiences of COVID-19. In this infographic, we explore some of the findings related to remote learning, wellbeing support from schools, and where children seek support for their mental health.


Infographic: Digital Copyright Laws And Online Teaching, Zoe Kaskamanidis Sep 2022

Infographic: Digital Copyright Laws And Online Teaching, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

A new report has assessed whether copyright limitations for educational purposes are unfit for remote education through a legal analysis of copyright laws in 40 countries. This infographic shows the number of countries in the report for which the following online teaching scenarios are not legal.


Infographic: E-Cigarette Use Among Students In Australian Schools, Zoe Kaskamanidis Aug 2022

Infographic: E-Cigarette Use Among Students In Australian Schools, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

New research assesses the nature and consequences of student vaping in primary and secondary schools in Australia. In this infographic, we explore the responses from a national sample of 196 school staff, surveyed about their perceptions of students’ e-cigarette use.


Infographic: How Well Are Australian Schools Teaching Students About Menstrual Health?, Zoe Kaskamanidis Aug 2022

Infographic: How Well Are Australian Schools Teaching Students About Menstrual Health?, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

Findings from a cross-sectional survey looking into young Australian women’s experiences of menstruation and dysmenorrhea indicate the need for better menstrual health education in Australian schools. Find out more about the survey responses in relation to menstrual health in Australian Health and Physical Education in today’s infographic.


Infographic: Student Perspectives – Making Schools A Better Place, Dominique Russell Jul 2022

Infographic: Student Perspectives – Making Schools A Better Place, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

Over 8300 children aged between 8 and 12 answered the question, 'what would make things better for kids in South Australia?' as part of an engagement project by the state’s Commissioner for Children and Young People. Here, we share some of their responses related to school.


Infographic: Language And Cognitive Skills In The Early Years, Zoe Kaskamanidis Jul 2022

Infographic: Language And Cognitive Skills In The Early Years, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

Results from the 2021 Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) collection cycle show that of all early childhood developmental domains, children’s language and cognitive skills have seen the most significant shift. Find out more in today’s infographic.


Infographic: From One Teacher To Another – Planning, Zoe Kaskamanidis Jul 2022

Infographic: From One Teacher To Another – Planning, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

In our annual Teacher magazine reader survey, we ask you to share one piece of advice with a fellow educator. In this infographic, we share some of the responses we received about planning.


Infografik: Dari Guru Untuk Guru – Semua Tentang Perencanaan, Zoe Kaskamanidis Jul 2022

Infografik: Dari Guru Untuk Guru – Semua Tentang Perencanaan, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher Southeast Asia

Dalam survei pembaca tahunan majalah Teacher, kami meminta Anda untuk menuliskan saran yang sangat ingin Anda bagikan kepada sesama pendidik. Di infografik kali ini, kami menampilkan beberapa respon yang telah kami terima terkait perencanaan dalam pembelajaran yang dapat juga Anda aplikasikan secara umum.


Infographic: Four- And Five-Year-Olds' Achievement During The Pandemic, Dominique Russell Jun 2022

Infographic: Four- And Five-Year-Olds' Achievement During The Pandemic, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

A recent study has analysed the experience of over 3000 children aged four and five attending preschool in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Children's achievement in prime learning areas, as well as their overall development, during September 2020 and July 2021, were compared to national pre-pandemic averages recorded in the 2018/19 school year.


Infographic: My First Teacher India Alphabet, Zoe Kaskamanidis Jun 2022

Infographic: My First Teacher India Alphabet, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

What do you need information on? Inclusivity? Engaging with parents? Virtual learning? The first Teacher India alphabet brings you quick links to popular content that you might find useful. Download the PDF for a hyperlinked version.


Infographic: Leaving Teaching, Zoe Kaskamanidis Jun 2022

Infographic: Leaving Teaching, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

A new study from Monash University draws upon a 2019 questionnaire of 2444 Australian primary and secondary school teachers, revealing that only 41% of respondents intended to remain in the profession. We look at some of the findings from the analysis in this infographic.


Infographic: Science Teaching – Women Physicists Your Students Should Know About, Jo Earp May 2022

Infographic: Science Teaching – Women Physicists Your Students Should Know About, Jo Earp

Teacher infographics

A new study has found in the most recent New South Wales HSC Physics syllabus 10 individuals are mentioned and all are men, and in the last 25 years physicists have been mentioned 211 times in the subject examinations and, again, all were men. In today’s infographic we share just three (there are many more!) amazing women physicists to tell your students about.


Infografik: Kesenangan Dan Kemampuan Membaca Di Era Digital, Zoe Kaskamanidis May 2022

Infografik: Kesenangan Dan Kemampuan Membaca Di Era Digital, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher Southeast Asia

Laporan OECD Pembaca di Abad-21: Membangun Keterampilan Literasi di Dunia Digital menganalisis data dari tes PISA 2018 serta survei murid untuk mengetahui bagaimana bentuk kebiasaan membaca anak 15 tahun di negara-negara OECD. Cari tahu lebih lanjut mengenai bagaimana kebiasaan membaca baik dalam format cetak maupun digital memengaruhi kemampuan serta kesenangan membaca murid di infografik hari ini.


Infographic: Supporting Students With Adhd, Zoe Kaskamanidis May 2022

Infographic: Supporting Students With Adhd, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

National charity ADHD Australia surveyed 1024 primary, secondary and tertiary educators in all Australian states and territories to identify their knowledge, training and experience to support students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Find out more in today’s infographic.


Infographic: Schools In 2021, Dominique Russell Apr 2022

Infographic: Schools In 2021, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

How many students were enrolled in how many schools across Australia throughout 2021? How many full-time equivalent staff members? What was the average student-teacher ratio? Find out what schools looked like in 2021 in today’s infographic.


Infographic: Principal Health And Wellbeing, Dominique Russell Apr 2022

Infographic: Principal Health And Wellbeing, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

The annual Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing Survey 2021 data show school leaders continue to experience negative health and wellbeing. In this infographic, we explore the survey results for various aspects of health and wellbeing.


Infografik: Dampak Covid-19 Terhadap Pendidikan, Zoe Kaskamanidis Mar 2022

Infografik: Dampak Covid-19 Terhadap Pendidikan, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher Southeast Asia

Lembaga survei yang merespon terjadinya disrupsi dalam pendidikan atau Responses to Educational Disruption Survey (REDS) UNESCO/IEA menyelidiki apa saja dampak yang dibawa pandemi terhadap pendidikan di tingkat sekolah menengah, menginvestigasi bagaimana 11 negara mengatasi berbagai tantangan untuk memastikan keberlangsungan proses belajar mengajar dengan disrupsi yang ada. Cari tahu lebih lanjut temuan menarik dari survei tersebut di infografik kali ini.


Infographic: The Impact Of Covid-19 On Education – Unesco Reds, Zoe Kaskamanidis Mar 2022

Infographic: The Impact Of Covid-19 On Education – Unesco Reds, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

The Responses to Educational Disruption Survey (REDS) explores how the pandemic has impacted lower secondary education, investigating how 11 countries approached the challenge of ensuring continuity in teaching and learning during the disruption. Find out more about insights from the survey in today's infographic.


Infographic: Financial Education In Schools, Jo Earp Mar 2022

Infographic: Financial Education In Schools, Jo Earp

Teacher infographics

An Australian survey has found that the vast majority of teachers value financial education, but only 52 per cent had taught it at school, and only 21 per cent in the last year. Find out more about their responses and the finance-related topics that students of different ages would like to learn about in today's infographic.


Infographic: My Tenth Teacher Alphabet, Zoe Kaskamanidis Feb 2022

Infographic: My Tenth Teacher Alphabet, Zoe Kaskamanidis

Teacher infographics

What do you need information on? High-impact school leadership? Data in action? Using quality mentor texts? Online safety? The tenth Teacher alphabet brings you quick links to popular content that you might find useful.


Infographic: School Funding – What Are Educators Seeking Support For?, Dominique Russell Feb 2022

Infographic: School Funding – What Are Educators Seeking Support For?, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

Philanthropic funding is one way school leaders can access support to implement and enhance initiatives and projects. Australian charity Schools Plus recently published details of applications for its latest round of grants. The requests from schools provide a snapshot of the initiatives and projects educators are seeking funding for.


School Improvement Tool Elaborations: Student Engagement And Wellbeing, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer), Queensland Department Of Education Jan 2022

School Improvement Tool Elaborations: Student Engagement And Wellbeing, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer), Queensland Department Of Education

School and system improvement

What happens in schools can have a great and lasting impact on the future wellbeing and outcomes for young people. Schools therefore play an important role in supporting students’ engagement and wellbeing. These elaborations are intended to support the work of schools by providing further specificity about the practices in each of the nine domains of the School Improvement Tool (previously National School Improvement Tool) that optimise student engagement and wellbeing and, in turn, impact on achievement. Commissioned by the Queensland Department of Education, the elaborations provide an evidence-based framework to guide practice by teachers, school leaders and education systems …


Teacher Development Multi-Year Studies. Using Case Studies To Investigate And Understand Teaching Quality And Student Learning: Initial Lessons Learned, Jennie Chainey, Debbie Wong, Elizabeth Cassity, Hilary Hollingsworth Jan 2022

Teacher Development Multi-Year Studies. Using Case Studies To Investigate And Understand Teaching Quality And Student Learning: Initial Lessons Learned, Jennie Chainey, Debbie Wong, Elizabeth Cassity, Hilary Hollingsworth

Education Analytics Service

This paper presents some initial lessons learned about the use of case studies as a key form of evidence regarding teaching quality and student learning in a multi-year teacher development study series. This study series, commissioned by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), involves the investigation of teacher development initiatives in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos), Timor-Leste and Vanuatu. The overall aim of the study series is to understand the extent to which the Australian investment has improved teaching quality and student learning. This paper discusses the processes used to design, implement, analyse and report case …


Teacher Development Multi-Year Study Series. Timor-Leste: Final Report, Elizabeth Cassity, Jennie Chainey, Debbie Wong Jan 2022

Teacher Development Multi-Year Study Series. Timor-Leste: Final Report, Elizabeth Cassity, Jennie Chainey, Debbie Wong

Education Analytics Service

The Australian Government is supporting the Government of Timor-Leste in education through the Partnership for Human Development (PHD) and Apoiu Lideransa liuhosi Mentoria no Apredizajen (ALMA). ALMA supports the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) to develop teacher professional learning, particularly in support of its major reform of rolling out and implementing the National Basic Education Curriculum (new curriculum) across schools in Timor-Leste. Under the Teacher Development Multi-Year Study for Timor-Leste (the Study), the Education Analytics Service (EAS) is investigating how ALMA is making a difference to these teaching and learning outcomes. The new curriculum was developed in 2013 …


Protocol: Teacher Professional Development For Disability Inclusion In Low- And Middle-Income Asia-Pacific Countries: An Evidence And Gap Map, Syeda Kashfee Ahmed, David Jeffries, Anannya Chakraborty, Petra Lietz, Amit Kaushik, Budiarti Rahayu, David Armstrong, Kris Sundarsagar Dec 2021

Protocol: Teacher Professional Development For Disability Inclusion In Low- And Middle-Income Asia-Pacific Countries: An Evidence And Gap Map, Syeda Kashfee Ahmed, David Jeffries, Anannya Chakraborty, Petra Lietz, Amit Kaushik, Budiarti Rahayu, David Armstrong, Kris Sundarsagar

Assessment and Reporting

According to prior research, teacher readiness and capability are key contributors for successful transition towards disability inclusive education, yet in-service teacher professional development for disability inclusion remains an under-researched area. The key objective of this evidence and gap map (EGM) is to locate evidence on interventions for disability inclusion focused teacher professional development (TPD) in low-to-middle-income-countries (LMICs) in the Asia-Pacific region. As such, it will illustrate different levels of evidence for TPD interventions as well as where there is no evidence (i.e., gaps). In other words, the EGM can make agencies aware where they might be operating in an area …


Infographic: From One Teacher To Another – Switching Off From Work, Dominique Russell Nov 2021

Infographic: From One Teacher To Another – Switching Off From Work, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

In our annual Teacher magazine reader survey, we ask you to share one piece of advice with a fellow educator. As the school holidays approach, in this infographic, we share some of the responses we received about the importance of switching off from work.


Infographic: Global Status Of Teachers, Dominique Russell Nov 2021

Infographic: Global Status Of Teachers, Dominique Russell

Teacher infographics

A survey of education officials and union leaders from all levels of education in 94 countries has given insight into how the teacher profession is viewed at a global scale. In this infographic, we share some of the survey responses in relation to K-12 settings.


Online Training On Formative Assessment For Early Language, Literacy, And Numeracy (Elln) In The Philippines: Final Report, Rti International Nov 2021

Online Training On Formative Assessment For Early Language, Literacy, And Numeracy (Elln) In The Philippines: Final Report, Rti International

Teacher education

This report describes findings and lessons learned from an online teacher training course in the Philippines. "Becoming a Learning Detective" is a 5-day online course that focuses on the design and use of formative assessment to improve literacy and numeracy outcomes in Kindergarten to Grade 3 (K–3) classrooms. The emphasis is on classroom-based assessment strategies that are embedded within daily teaching and learning experiences, involving an active partnership between teacher and students. The course brings together asynchronous and synchronous elements, as well as whole group, small group, and individual learning experiences. The course was implemented for the first time among …


Australian Strategic Partnerships In Remote Education, Yung Nietschke Oct 2021

Australian Strategic Partnerships In Remote Education, Yung Nietschke

International Education Research

This report highlights the achievements and lessons learned from the pilot stage of the Australian Strategic Partnerships in Remote Education (ASPIRE) initiative which was managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) as part of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Partnerships for Recovery: Australia’s COVID-19 Development Response. In its pilot phase ASPIRE partnerships have strengthened collaboration between Australian and Indo-Pacific institutions and promoted the value of Australian expertise in remote teaching and learning to key counterparts in government, tertiary institutions, community organisations and teachers. Partnerships included: 'Innovative Online Learning for Lao Lecturers between Monash College and …


Teachers Report Card 2021: Teachers’ Perceptions Of Education And Their Profession, Australian College Of Educators Oct 2021

Teachers Report Card 2021: Teachers’ Perceptions Of Education And Their Profession, Australian College Of Educators

Australian College of Educators - National

Teachers play a central role in the development of Australia’s young people. It is essential that their voices are heard by those who make and decide policy, and by others who influence their learning and development. The NEiTA-ACE Teachers Report Card 2021is based on a survey of amplifying the voices of teachers on the state of education and on their profession.