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Reports of teachers being watched via surveillance cameras by school leaders who monitor their attendance at mandated meetings have surfaced, with some saying teaching staff are treated like students in a workplace that now carries Big Brother undertones.

‘Like being in the army’: teachers lament absurd staff meeting requirements

Teachers are grappling with the need to provide a host of educational adjustments to students with disability, with new data showing a clear uptick in children requiring specialised supports so they can best learn and participate in the classroom.

Teachers ‘on the front line’ amid rising number of students with disability adjustments

The fields of trauma-informed classroom practice and learning science should become more closely aligned around instructional practices likely to support the majority of learners, regardless of trauma or neurodiversity backgrounds, leading cognitive psychologist Distinguished Professor Pamela Snow from La Trobe University has argued.

Teachers aren’t social workers: trauma-informed practice risks neglecting learning, expert says The fields of trauma-informed classroom practice and learning science should become more closely aligned around instructional practices likely to support the majority of learners, regardless of trauma or neurodiversity backgrounds, a leading cognitive psychologist has argued.

Fads, influential academics with misguided ideas, and poor standards around what constitutes ‘evidence-based’ maths teaching have derailed student outcomes for years, a leading expert in maths education says.

Maths teaching derailed by flimsy ‘evidence’, popular figures with bad ideas: Anna Stokke

An in-principle agreement which will see Victoria’s public school teachers pocket pay rises of up to 32.4 per cent has been struck between the Allan Government and the Australian Education Union – but some argue the proposal fails to deliver better working conditions and should be rejected.

‘Nothing to lose by holding out’: Vic teachers not happy with 32 per cent pay offer

In the wake of the Canvas data breach, Australian teachers and school leaders should now brace for an imminent wave of highly targeted phishing scams aimed at their communities, a cyber safety expert has warned.

Canvas breach: Australian schools the likely target of sophisticated phishing scams

Australian teachers have been led astray by a prominent general capability in the national curriculum, which is based on the misguided premise that critical thinking can be taught as an abstract skill, a former teacher turned instructional coach has said.

Australian teachers let down by flawed critical thinking capability: instructional coach

‘Perverse’ and ‘morally bereft’ is how Jane Caro describes Australia’s school funding system, which she says works to segregate children across class lines while luring desperate parents into financial ruin in pursuit of entering the exclusive private schools club.

‘Reverse Robin Hood’: Jane Caro lashes Australia's unfair school funding model

A dangerously lax approach to student photo permissions by some schools is seeing external presenters unlawfully posting photos of children to help promote their business online, and the risks are huge, Australia’s leading cybersafety expert has warned.

Presenters are unlawfully posting student photos to boost their business: expert