Teaching News
YouTube for teachers and education professionals
Here is a fantastic site for teachers. TeacherTube is YouTube for teachers and provides a place online for teachers to share interesting education and instructional videos.
No doubt this community will grow quickly and there is already a whole heap of useful videos ready for your viewing pleasure. TeacherTube also makes it easy to share [...]
Using ‘Rate My Teacher’ to secure a promotion
It seems that I’ve been living under a rock as I totally missed this story the first time it went around! “Students use web to diss teachers”. It’s certainly a compelling headline! The story focuses on the website Rate My Teacher and its rise in popularity.
Rate My Teacher promotes itself as an educational resource [...]
Report into the benefits of Music Education released
The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, has released a report from the National Music Workshop, which promotes the benefits of music education in Australian schools.
“Music can provide powerful learning experiences for all children. It can help develop young people’s creativity and self-expression and encourage them to engage more productively [...]
School yard bullying of teachers needs to stop
An article in today’s Herald-Sun has revealed that more than $21 million was paid to teachers in stress leave between January 2002 and August 2006. WorkCover figures suggest that around 700 state school teachers have been paid to take stress leave due to harassment, assault and work pressures.
Disturbingly, violence and harassment of school teachers seems [...]
Daily Mail - ‘Stop feminising our schools’
I read an interesting editorial piece on the Daily Mail news website, ‘Stop feminising our schools - our boys are suffering’, by Jill Parkin. It definitely provides an interesting point of view, and presents the argument that the current education system is holding back the intellectual development of the male population.
This system of continuous assessment means [...]
