You may have experienced it as a teacher, or a school leader – out-of-field teaching remains a big issue. Professor Merrilyn Goos and Professor Linda Hobbs join Teacher editor Jo Earp for a special podcast episode to talk about the current situation in Australia, challenges and possible solutions.
Host: Jo Earp
Guests: Professor Merrilyn Goos and Professor Linda Hobbs

Special: Out-of-field teaching

Secondary schools occupy a special place in the learning journey for students, sandwiched between primary and post-school options. In episode 9 of School Assembly, we chat to Jo Camozzato about what that means, in terms of linking it all together.
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Jo Camozzato
Sponsor: Monash University

Linking the student learning journey

New research has emphasised the importance of adolescent school belonging as a long-term protective factor that can mitigate against later depression, anxiety, and stress. In this episode of The Research Files we speak to the lead author about the findings and the implications for schools. 
Host: Dominique Russell
Guest: Associate Professor Kelly-Ann Allen

The long-term impacts of a sense of school belonging on mental health

In this podcast episode, Glenn Kayes, Deputy Principal at Kellyville High School in New South Wales, shares how the school’s average student attendance rate has increased, thanks to an evaluation and review of existing policies and procedures, and a raft of new measures.
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Glenn Kayes

A focus on student attendance

If you listened to last month’s episode of Teacher Staffroom, you’ll remember we spoke about new research that found the attendance of a year 9 student experiencing disadvantage can be a key indicator of whether or not they complete year 12. The report said that closely monitoring student attendance is important, but what strategies can schools implement to ensure they’re supporting students to have high attendance? We’ve explored some recent international research on this topic, and also looked at how one school in Australia is focusing on attendance. So, in this episode of Teacher Staffroom I’ll be bringing you up to speed on this content and, of course, I’ll also bring you a couple of my other personal highlights. 
Host: Dominique Russell
Sponsor: Grok Academy (grokacademy.org)


Staffroom: Working with families and students on attendance

Today, nominations open for the 2024 Teacher Awards! In this special episode, Teacher Editor, Jo Earp, introduces the 2024 Award categories, our Judging Panel, and information on how you can enter. Find out more here: www.teachermagazine.com/teacherawards
Host: Jo Earp

Teacher Awards 2024: Nominations are now open!

Welcome to Episode 10 of the School Assembly podcast series, where we explore what it takes to build a school from the ground up. In Series 2 we’ve been following Jo Camozzato and the team at the dual campus Bemin Secondary College in the Melbourne suburb of Truganina. Our topic for this episode is staff collaboration – we’ll be talking about how you foster that with a completely new team, setting aside time for collaboration, uncovering and sharing staff expertise, and how feedback informs planning. 
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Jo Camozzato

Staff collaboration and feedback

We’re increasingly using digital devices for our written communications, but researchers from Edith Cowan University here in Australia have recently highlighted the ongoing importance of explicitly teaching both handwriting and keyboarding skills to students, starting in the primary years. Lead researcher Dr Anabela Malpique joins us for today’s episode of The Research Files. She’s a Senior Lecturer in Literacy at the School of Education at ECU, and we’ll be chatting about the findings of a meta-analysis comparing the effects of writing by hand or keyboarding on primary students’ writing performance, and a follow-up study with grade 2 students in Western Australia. She’ll also be sharing some tips for how teachers in the classroom, and in collaboration with families, can help students become hybrid writers. 
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Dr Anabela Malpique 
Sponsor: Teachers Mutual Bank

Helping students become hybrid writers

Highly effective schools enhance student outcomes by fostering strong 2-way partnerships. In this episode of School Improvement, Dominique Russell is joined by Lesley Johnson from Trinity College in Adelaide, and Simon Leonard from the University of South Australia to discuss the success of their partnership that has been ongoing since 2017, including how it’s improving practice for both school and university staff. 
Host: Dominique Russell
Guests: Lesley Johnson and Simon Leonard
Sponsor: Grok Academy (grokacademy.org)

Successful school and university partnerships

We’re at the end of term 2 in Australia and in this episode of Teacher Staffroom, we catch you up on content we’ve published recently that you might find useful at this time of year – including tax tips for teachers, leaders seeking feedback from staff to inform their next steps, and the benefits of successful partnerships with universities.
Host: Dominique Russell
Sponsor: Teachers Mutual Bank

Teacher Staffroom: Mid-year check in

With the COVID-19 pandemic comes a dramatic change to education and a lot of questions about the continuation of learning. At Teacher magazine, we’ve published a lot of content looking at navigating this challenge. In this podcast, we take you through some of the highlights.
Host: Dominique Russell
Sponsor: Bank First

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