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Teacher Staffroom: Implementation of programs in the curriculum

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In our latest reader survey – which we run annually to give our audience the opportunity to let us know about their experiences in the education sec...

Supporting students of all ages to read successfully – phonics, morphology, vocabulary and word study

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we're delighted to welcome Mandy Nayton, Educational and Developmental Psychologist and Chief Executive Officer of the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundatio...

A whole school approach to teacher wellbeing with Dr Alexandra Hennessey

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re talking about a whole school approach to wellbeing. Our guest is Dr Alexandra Hennessey, from the Manchester Institute of Edu...

Preparing trainees for the classroom – the Teaching School Hubs program

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We're joined by St Columba Anglican School Principal Allan Guihot and Director of Professional Learning Chris Delaney. They’re in Port Macquarie, on...

Teacher Staffroom: A strong start to a new school year

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We’re well and truly into the new school year here in Australia. In today’s episode, we run you through the highlights from this month, including ...

An interview with Australian top 10 finalist of the Global Teacher Prize Colleen O’Rourke

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The winner of the 2026 Global Teacher Prize has just been announced. Rouble Nagi from India has been named winner and has taken home the US $1 million...

Award-winning STEM teachers on lesson activities and sharing knowledge with colleagues

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Late last year, the winners of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Excellence in Science Teaching were announced. Each year, the 2 prizes – one f...

Get ready for 2026 with Teacher

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year from the Teacher team! We hope you’re having a restful break these school holidays and that you can take some time to recharge for th...

2025: Our year in podcasts

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It has been an exciting year of Teacher podcasts! In this annual wrap-up of highlights from 2025, the team at Teacher select their favourite episodes ...

Exclusive: An interview with Estonian Education Minister Dr Kristina Kallas

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a Teacher exclusive, Minister of Education and Research for Estonia Dr Kristina Kallas joins editor Jo Earp for this special podcast to talk about ...

Teacher Staffroom: Looking at learning spaces – playgrounds, libraries and tech hubs

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we head into the last month of 2025, many of you might be starting to turn your mind towards the beginning of the next school year. A big part of g...

School Improvement: Managing, restocking and refreshing library spaces

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's Episode 64 of our series on School Improvement and the topic is something that we're really passionate about at Teacher – school libraries and ...

Addressing religion and beliefs in diverse classrooms

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is important that teachers feel confident to respectfully and effectively address religion and beliefs in diverse classrooms. But it can be difficu...

Teacher Staffroom Episode 71: Elevating educator voice

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this month, Australia’s results from the Teaching and Learning International Survey were released. The OECD’s TALIS is the largest interna...

The Research Files: TALIS 2024 with Dr Tim Friedman

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our Research Files podcast series, editor Jo Earp talks to ACER’s Dr Tim Friedman about the latest Teaching and Learning Internat...

The Aspect Learning Improvement Collaborative

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Teacher editor Jo Earp finds out how the Aspect Learning Improvement Collaborative is using a mainstream learning framework developed by Dr Lyn Sharra...

Teacher Staffroom: Building instructional capacity

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s well known from the research that high quality teaching and leadership teams learn from each other's practices. Recently on Teacher, the leader...

Focusing on presence, not absence – flipping the script on attendance

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, Dominique Russell is joined by Chantel Barnes. She’s Principal at Glenora District School in the rural town of Glenora outside...

Special: R U OK Day – 4 steps for checking in with a colleague, friend or loved one

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

R U OK? Day is a national day of action that reminds Australians to check in with others and ask ‘are you OK?’ In this special episode, Teacher ...

Principals leading through crises – what did they learn?

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The past few years have been a challenging time for schools in Australia and around the world. Schools have adapted to the impacts of COVID-19; some h...

Teacher Staffroom Episode 69: Our range of different formats

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that here at Teacher magazine we publish content in different formats? From short to long articles, reader submissions, columns from dist...

Play spaces with Dr Fatemeh Aminpour

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For students, a sizeable chunk of their school day is spent at lunch and recess, in the playground and recreation spaces, and outdoor learning areas. ...

Cracking persistent classroom dilemmas with Professor Brianna Kennedy

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What are the persistent teaching dilemmas you find yourself thinking about in your spare time and circling back to time and again? Professor Brianna K...

Fostering a sense of belonging for early career teachers

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a teacher listening to this episode, I’m sure you remember your first few years in the profession – the unique challenges you faced and the sup...

Teacher Staffroom Episode 68: Supporting post-school pathways

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thinking about your own school, how are you helping students understand the many opportunities and pathways open to them, and the training or further ...

Addressing the maths gender gap in the early years

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're joined by Pauline Martinot, a medical doctor who specialises in child health and prevention. Dr Martinot pursued a research career in cogn...

Setting up for healthy play behaviours at school

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Associate Professor Brendon Hyndman is our guest today. If that name sounds familiar to you – Brendon was actually the guest in our first episode of...

School Assembly S3E11: Series 3 Final

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Episode 11 of Series 3 of School Assembly – yes, we’ve actually reached the final episode today! So, School Assembly – if you don’t...

Teacher Staffroom: Real-world maths

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we’re talking all things maths – as it’s something we’ve published quite a bit on this month. In this episode, we're going to run you th...

The Research Files: A quality music education

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Music education is an important part of primary school. It’s got a range of benefits, of course, not only for students’ music learning, but for im...

School Improvement: Careers and pathways education for secondary students

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last month we brought you news of a major OECD report on the state of global teenage career preparation. So, in this follow-up podcast we’re going t...

School Assembly S3E10: Distributed leadership and the leadership pipeline

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve reached the penultimate episode of Series 3 of our podcast series School Assembly. Teacher editor Jo Earp talks to Notre Dame P-12 College Pri...

Celebrating 100 episodes of The Research Files

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate our 100th episode of The Research Files podcast series, the team at Teacher have delved into the archives to choose clips from our favour...

Teacher Staffroom Episode 66: New monthly themes

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It has been an exciting month here at Teacher magazine because we launched our new monthly themes. In this Teacher Staffroom podcast, I’ll take you ...

Unlocking high-quality teaching with Professor Jenni Ingram

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Research Files podcast, Teacher editor Jo Earp chats to Jenni Ingram, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, abo...

School Assembly S3E9: Professional learning

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of School Assembly is all about professional learning. Our Series 3 Principal Dan McShea joins us from Queensland's Notre Dame P-12 Colle...

Special: AI in teaching and learning

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There’s so much potential for artificial intelligence and generative AI tools to support teaching and learning, but alongside these exciting opportu...

Teacher Staffroom Episode 65: Teacher recruitment

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What made you decide to become a teacher? We’ve been looking at teacher recruitment this month, but perhaps from a different lens that you might thi...

Special: Teacher wellbeing – nutrition tips for during the school day

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We speak often about the importance of students having an adequate amount of food to help them focus and learn during the school day. But what about t...

Getting more First Nations teachers into schools

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We know the global teacher shortage is impacting many different school contexts, and that encouraging young people to consider a career in teaching is...

Teacher Staffroom Episode 64: Podcasts and popular content

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're really excited to share with you some of the highlights from this month, focusing on the incredible podcast episodes we’ve published on Teache...

Award-winning science teachers on real-world learning, professional development and lesson ideas

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Late last year, the 2024 recipients of the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Excellence in Science Teaching were announced. The national Prizes recognise ...

School Assembly S3E8: Getting your policies and procedures in place

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

School Assembly is the series where we find out what it takes to build a new school from scratch. We’ve been following Dan McShea from Notre Dame P-...

Professor John Munro on leadership for the provision of gifted education

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My guest today is Professor John Munro, a teacher and a psychologist who has taught and researched in gifted education and talent development for 4 de...

A framework for building communication and self-regulation skills in the classroom

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We hear a lot about the role of educators and schools in developing the essential skills students need for learning and for life – things like criti...

Teacher Staffroom: Improving learning for all students

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s our first episode of Teacher Staffroom for 2025, and there’s plenty to take you through today to catch you up on content that’s kicked off ...

School Assembly S3E7: The first day of school

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks for joining us for Episode 7 in Series 3 of the School Assembly podcast from Teacher. School Assembly is the series where we find out what it t...

Meet Brett Dascombe – a top 10 finalist for the Global Teacher Prize

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The winner of the 2025 Global Teacher Prize has been announced. Mansour Al Mansour from Saudi Arabia has walked away with the $1 million US dollars in...

A toolkit for global citizenship education

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the classroom, how can we go about enacting global citizenship? What might it look like when you’re starting out with your students? What does it...

Teacher tips for starting the new year

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some of our 2024 Teacher Awards winners join us in this special podcast episode, where they share their top tips for starting the new year. From readi...

School Assembly S3E6: Setting the teaching direction and a Series 1 and 2 update

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a special, bumper episode of School Assembly as Teacher Editor Jo Earp chats to Dan McShea about setting the teaching direction, and also check...

Bonus: A preview of our 2025 podcasts

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year from the team at Teacher magazine. In this bonus podcast episode, we’re delighted to share with you a sneak preview into what podcast...

2024: Our year in podcasts

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this annual wrap-up of our year in podcasts, the editorial team at Teacher select their favourite episodes of 2024 – from our School Improvement ...

School Assembly S3E5: From building site to finished school

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Series 3 of School Assembly we’ve been following Dan McShea, Foundation Principal of Notre Dame College on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The P-1...

Teacher Staffroom: Looking ahead to the new school year

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our last episode of Teacher Staffroom for 2024, we recap some of our leadership, research news and inclusive education stories that might be useful...

Lifting rural and regional school education outcomes

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Phil Roberts joins Teacher Editor Jo Earp to talk about the Rural and Regional Education Project, which explores how to lift outcomes for st...

School Assembly S3E4: Leading a new school

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

School Assembly is the podcast where we find out what it takes to build a school from the ground up. In Series 3 we’re following Dan McShea, Princip...

Grief and loss education in the secondary years

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Improving students’ academic achievement goes hand-in-hand with supporting their health and wellbeing. In Episode 56 of our School Improvement podca...

Teacher Staffroom: Curriculum Implementation

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This year, when we asked you what topics you’d like to see us cover in the future, many of you said curriculum implementation. This is something we’...

School Assembly S3E3: Crafting a school vision and mission statement

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

School Assembly is the podcast series that explores what it takes to build a school from the ground up. In this episode we catch up with Notre Dame Co...

Instructional leadership with Research Conference keynote Professor David Hopkins

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’re joined by Professor David Hopkins ahead of his keynote at ACER’s Research Conference 2025, titled ‘Unleashing Greatness – A Strategy for...

Global Education: Playful learning in Laos

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our Global Education podcast, Teacher Editor Jo Earp talks to Soukdalone Phommathep – Foundation Principal of Lab Langban in Laos...

Teacher Staffroom: Award-winning educators

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From our very own Teacher Awards to the ARIA Music Teacher of the Year Award and the STEM Video Game Challenge, it’s certainly the time of year for ...

Teacher at 10 – a decade of podcasting

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're celebrating 10 years of Teacher magazine this year, and that also means 10 years of podcasting. In this special episode, the Teacher editorial t...

School Assembly S3E2: Growing student enrolments

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Series 3 of our School Assembly podcast, we’re following Dan McShea – Foundation Principal of the new P-12 Notre Dame College on Queensland’s...

Announcing the 2024 Teacher Awards winners

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Teacher Awards! Nominations closed late July and we announced our shortlist 2 weeks ago whi...

Australian insights from PISA 2022

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are Australian students getting better or worse at mathematics? Are they more or less creative than their OECD peers? Andrew Broadley chats to ACER Se...

Teacher Staffroom: School leader insights

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a school leader, what’s been your biggest achievement of the last month? What about a challenge or hurdle you’ve had to overcome? And what’s ...

Toxic masculinity in schools

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As an educator, you may be aware that misogynistic thinking has increased among young boys recently. So, what can teachers do to tackle misogyny in th...

School Assembly S3E1: Meet Our Series 3 Principal

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For Series 3 of School Assembly, we’re switching locations and widening the student age range. Dan McShea is Foundation Principal of Notre Dame Coll...

Teacher Staffroom: Concentrating on creativity

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last month, new data from PISA 2022 on the creative thinking assessment were released, showing Australian students performed strongly. At Teacher, we’...

Effective use of education technology

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Editor Jo Earp sits down with Acting CEO of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership Edmund Misson to talk about e...

Teacher research informing practice

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of School Improvement Editor Jo Earp is joined by Jake Compton, Director of Academic Culture and a teacher in the Senior School at Can...

Teaching for creativity across the curriculum

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our Global Education podcast, Editor Jo Earp talks to Lead Practitioner Sarah Childs and Associate Professor Kerry Chappell about t...

School Assembly Series 2 Final

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

School Assembly is the podcast series where we explore what it takes to build a school from the ground up. It’s the Series 2 Final and Bemin Seconda...

Teacher Staffroom: Mid-year check in

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 mig...

Successful school and university partnerships

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Highly effective schools enhance student outcomes by fostering strong 2-way partnerships. In this episode of School Improvement, Dominique Russell is ...

Helping students become hybrid writers

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’re increasingly using digital devices for our written communications, but researchers from Edith Cowan University here in Australia have recently...

Staff collaboration and feedback

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Teacher Awards 2024: Nominations are now open!

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, nominations open for the 2024 Teacher Awards! In this special episode, Teacher Editor, Jo Earp, introduces the 2024 Award categories, our Judgi...

Staffroom: Working with families and students on attendance

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 st...

A focus on student attendance

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast episode, Glenn Kayes, Deputy Principal at Kellyville High School in New South Wales, shares how the school’s average student attenda...

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

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New research has emphasised the importance of adolescent school belonging as a long-term protective factor that can mitigate against later depression,...

Linking the student learning journey

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Secondary schools occupy a special place in the learning journey for students, sandwiched between primary and post-school options. In episode 9 of Sch...

Special: Out-of-field teaching

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Lind...

Staffroom: Meeting students at their point of need

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Teacher Staffroom, we’re bringing you up to speed on our latest content on the topic of meeting student needs, including how 5 hi...

Special: World-class learning systems – meeting individual student needs

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the final episode of our 3-part miniseries on world-class learning systems, Jo Earp and Professor Geoff Masters discuss how schools and communities...

Engaging parents from refugee backgrounds

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest for Episode 90 of The Research Files is Dr Sharon Wagner, a casual academic and researcher at Western Sydney University. She recently co-aut...

School Assembly S2E8: Meeting individual student needs

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

School Assembly is the podcast that explores what it takes to build a new school from the ground up. In Episode 8 of Season 2 we catch up with Bemin S...

Supporting student welfare – vaping, menstruation and anxiety

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We know that supporting a student’s welfare is a priority for teachers, leaders, and school staff. But what this looks like can vary based on a scho...

Gender differences in classroom emotional experiences

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s well-known from existing research that boys tend to have more positive attitudes towards STEM than girls do at school. We also know that studen...

Podcast special: World-class learning systems – conditions for successful student learning

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest for this special miniseries is Professor Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research. His new book, 'Building a Wo...

School Assembly: Establishing the instructional model

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

School Assembly is the podcast where we explore what it takes to build a school from the ground up. Bemin Secondary College has just opened, and impor...

Teacher Staffroom: Planning for 2024

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As staff and students around Australia settle into the 2024 school year, we’ve been busy at Teacher sharing content to help you with your planning. ...

School Improvement: Award-winning STEM teachers

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

National awards are just one way of recognising the outstanding work of teachers, school leaders and other education staff, and their impact on studen...

Podcast special: World-class learning systems

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research, joins Teacher for a series on world-class learning systems. In Episod...

School Assembly S2E6: The big launch ... and one year on

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the School Assembly podcast, we celebrate the opening of Bemin Secondary College in Truganina, Melbourne with Principal Jo Camozzat...

Podcast panel: Tips for a successful start to the school year

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’re right at the beginning of a new school year here in Australia. That means most of you are busy setting up your classrooms, meeting new student...

School Improvement: Effective leadership communication

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our first podcast episode of 2024 focuses on effective leadership communication. We catch up with Jacinda Euler Welsh, Principal of Brisbane Girls Gra...

Podcast extra: 2024 preview

07 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year from the team at Teacher magazine. In this bonus episode, we’re delighted to share with you a sneak preview into what podcasts you ca...