Understanding how to better support teacher wellbeing and how it changes over time will help reduce burnout and attrition rates.
"...teachers who reported more positive teacher-student relationships at the start of term ended the term with higher [rates of] wellbeing than those teachers who started the term with less positive teacher-student relationships,” Scientia Associate Professor Rebecca Collie from UNSW’s School of Education says. Read more

Girls often excel in their secondary education but often struggle to repeat that success after school.
   Exceptional young women need to be told that that there are more pathways and fulfilling careers to be found alongside the more traditional destinations for academic high achievers like medicine. It looks like the career information or support provided by their school play a vital role in career development beyond school. Read more

Australian students witnessing the impact of the current cost-of-living crisis have made ‘cost’ the Oxford Australian 2023 Children’s Word of the Year (CWOTY).
   Using data collected through the online program Writing Legends, Oxford University Press analysed over 32,800 children’s stories and over 3.3 million words written by primary and secondary school students across the country.
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A majority of Australian high school English teachers believe digital games are a legitimate text type to use in their teaching programs, but just 15 per cent have done so.
   Those with less years of teaching experience were more likely to consider digital games as a valid learning tool and use them in the classroom.
    80 per cent of teachers have not received professional development on using digital games-based learning. Read more

Encouraging First Nations kids back to school involves listening to indigenous people and adjusting what is done in education so it is more accommodating and sensitive to indigenous culture.
   One person who knows how tough it is to rise as an indigenous person is Lukas Williams whose life was following an all-too-common negative trajectory. He turned his back on that path and re-emerged as an entrepreneur and motivational speaker. Read more

It's a new year and it's sure to be another crazy busy one, we're aware that teachers and principals have more on their plate than ever and with that in mind we've decided to release ET news every two weeks.
   It'll have the same top notch content but will represent the best we've come up with in a two week period rather than one, giving you busy people the chance to catch up with all you need to know around education news and research in one bi weekly hit.