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Underfuelled teachers are skipping lunch due to work demands: study

1 week ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

So says former teacher-turned dietician and University of Newcastle researcher Tammie Jakstas, who has launched a research project called ‘The Teacher Nutrition Study’ that’s seeking to address this seemingly under scrutinised issue impacting on teachers’ health and wellbeing.
Blueprint to weed out ‘faddish’ maths instruction blasts govts for inaction, mixed advice

1 week ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

The Institute contend that our governments have been too slow to draw a line through ‘faddish’ and discredited maths teaching methods in primary school classrooms, leaving teachers and school leaders to grapple with inconsistent and contradictory advice about what evidence-based practice actually entails.
The ‘nonsense’ learning styles myth has made a huge comeback: Hattie

2 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

Drawing on 17 meta-analyses, Hattie and his University of Melbourne colleague Dr Timothy O’Leary found there has been a clear resurgence in the deep-rooted yet entirely invalid theory.
Handwriting could be the ‘neurological glue’ for some children in literacy

3 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

Back in 2012 Dr Karen Ray was working as an occupational therapist in schools when she noticed unusually high numbers of Prep children were experiencing problems with handwriting fluency. “[Prep is when] children are first learning letter names and sounds and connecting them with forms – and the rates I was seeing of referral were really what I thought were quite high…“And so in my clinical role, I started investigating possible approaches,” Ray tells EducationHQ.
Govts have locked in poor expectations for literacy and numeracy achievement: report

3 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

Recently released, the Institute’s ‘Orange Book’ is deemed to be a ‘policy blueprint’ for the next government and aims to identify the changes that will improve the lives of Australians, with school education earmarked as a key sector ripe for reform. The authors flag that no matter the measure used, far too many students across all jurisdictions are falling short of national proficiency benchmarks in literacy and numeracy.
‘No room for error’: school principals exhausted by parents’ demands, study finds

3 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

Led by Carolyn Wade, lecturer and research fellow at Griffith University, the study drew on 12 interviews with Queensland school leaders to unveil the ‘profound emotional and moral injury’ they endure at the hands of an increasingly vocal and conflict-happy parent body. With more than a decade in school leadership herself, Wade says she wanted to explore how parent engagement in schools can be a double-edged sword.
'It feels very tick-a-box’: what teachers really think about staff wellbeing initiatives

3 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

Led by Dr Lucy Corbett from The University of Sydney, the research canvassed the experiences of 23 teachers drawn from diverse locations across the country, revealing preventative health programs were seen to be ‘unsustainable and ineffective’. Corbett said school-run sessions were deemed by teachers to be way off the mark and a weak ‘tick the box’ exercise on the part of leadership.
Leading on the fly: research exposes the messy, unseen work of middle leaders

3 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

Griffith University’s Professor Peter Grootenboer, along with a team of researchers, have set about changing this. As part of a wider investigation into the nitty-gritty work of this unique cohort, the former teacher turned academic has teased out the messy and ‘on the fly’ nature of middle leadership in schools. Shadowing middle leaders for five days proved an especially eye-opening method of data collection, Grootenboer reports.
Trust over compliance: school’s winning evidence-backed approach to lesson observation

3 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

Called ‘Mahi Tahi’, which translates from Te Reo Māori as ‘we work together as one’, the program at Auckland’s Long Bay College is cultivating trust alongside marked professional growth, while normalising lesson observations as a key means of sharing knowledge and best practice amongst teaching teams. Associate principal James Heneghan says a few years ago the school’s curriculum and pedagogy team spied a problem in the wider literature on mentoring and lesson observation.
Escalating violence, cyberbullying and crushing workloads pushing principals to the brink: study

4 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

The latest Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing Survey has dropped, and despite some small pockets of improvement, the overall findings offer a worrying insight into the state of school leaders’ working conditions and mental health. Compiled by ACU’s Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, the report argues that it remains unacceptable that too many school leaders are subject to behaviours that are rightly not tolerated in any other professional workplace.