When a school community member at St Mary’s College in Adelaide offered to help set up a ‘digital twin’ of a new building pre-pandemic, staff were baffled. The school’s then leader of learning innovation, Jasmin Parasiers, says teachers were initially unsure how to tackle it. She describes a digital twin…

You might be curious about how much mathematics content you need to learn compared to pedagogy if you’re an out-of-field teacher and looking to upskill through professional development or another qualification. Professor Kim Beswick from the University of NSW in Australia explains as part of our wide-ranging conversation about the…

Jo Lampert, La Trobe University’s Professor of Social Inclusion and Teacher Education, contested the claims of a teacher shortage with her viral tweet in early August 2022, saying thousands of qualified, experienced teachers no longer teach. Respect and proper compensation for teachers to let them actually teach is the real…

A pedagogy-free beginning This was a country at war in early 1995. My charges, aged eight to 12, in this Zagreb middle school, had experienced dodging snipers taking shots at them from high up on city buildings, sirens forewarning of bomb about to crash land. …

Where do you start if you want to forge a career as a technical or technology writer? A technical writer churns out how-to-guides, instruction or user manuals, journal articles, FAQs, product specifications, white papers, etc. …

One school’s chicken coop and another school’s solar-powered recycled plastic benches with inbuilt phone-recharging stations. Which will see the light of day as a STEM story published on an online news site, specialist education magazine, or newspaper? It’s all about crafting a story-idea pitch, how, when, and where you send…

My latest installment as I delve into the phenomenon of out-of-field teaching as part of my Graduate Research in Education Research at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. Stitched up? Patterning out-of-field teachers using representational and textual tools Quilters sketch, stretch, cut and stitch, much like the process Australia’s K-12 education system undergoes to craft its ‘patchwork quilt’ of in-field and…

This was a war where not a drop of blood was shed, nor prisoner held, with no victor or vanquished. It has never earnt a mention in standard school history textbooks. Yet, its impact for societies across the globe has been seismic and it’s ready for the future (at least, I think so). The average layperson knows nothing of the Paradigm War; so intense some speak of it in the plural (Guba 1990, Smith 1989 and Gage 1989).

How beginning educators teaching high school mathematics out-of-field in regional Australia develop a professional identity Dear reader: I’ve plunged into writing about out-of-field teaching for a post-graduate degree in education research. Here’s my foray into sense-making of this phenomenon. Up to one in three beginning secondary school educators in Australia…