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Teach young children about bullying to stop it
Stopping children from bullying each other starts with their understanding of it; telling them what bullying is and involves assists in stopping bullying from happening.
Bullying prevention expert Dr Lesley-Anne Ey says that bullying takes place in all forms from an early age. She says children have limited understanding of bullying and that more needs to be done to explicitly educate younger children about it so as to contribute to the prevention of lasting problems these behaviours lead to. Read more

$100k Fellowship for outstanding Victorian school leaders: applications closing soon
John Hattie has really put Melbourne on the map education wise and you can access the opportunity to work with the man himself through a Menzies Fellowship.
The new program is a partnership between the Menzies Foundation and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. Applications for the inaugural Menzies School Leader Fellowship Program supporting leadership capability in schools close on 21 December.
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Swinburne project encourages women into STEM
Swinburne University researchers have started on a project, titled ‘Standing out from the Crowd’, targeting 20 urban and 10 rural Victorian secondary schools and seeking to encourage women in STEM.
They aim to create and evaluate the effectiveness of educational resources including profiles of highly successful enterprising women in STEM, and train teachers to deliver these resources in the classroom. Read more

Innovation and Creativity … IMO
I don’t know about you, but I have seen this before. I have been this before. It’s an easy trap to fall into. You unwrap the bright and shiny new ‘thing’ that will transform your classroom. The solution to a problem we never knew we had. And the gateway to a whole range of new and exciting problems that didn’t exist before but now do. If only it did what we wanted it to do or even delivered some of the expected outcomes! Read more

The National Education Summit is heading to Brisbane
The National Education Summit will hold it’s inaugural Queensland event in 2019, bringing a comprehensive professional development program to educators over two days 31 May – 1 June at the Convention Centre.
The Summit Program includes three conferences – Digital Classroom Practice, Capacity Building in Libraries, and Creativity and Innovation in Learning; the Special Needs Symposium; and a Trade Expo. Read More

Help desk robot saves time and energy
A help desk is perhaps the definition of tedium but for the Catholic School system in NSW employing Serena has taken most of the pain out of resolving, for the greater part, lost passwords and usernames.
Serena is a chatbot, developed to offer first line support to CSNSW’s 11,000-strong user-base spread across almost 600 schools and free up the IT help desk. It took two days to get Serena built and running, which halved the log-in related problems and reduced overall support costs. Read more

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   If there has been a theme for the year, judging by all of the articles we've published, it is that tech and education have never been more entwined and that's only set to continue, technological skills are becoming as fundamental as spelling and maths and the way teaching is delivered and monitored is just as tech heavy.
    As they say, the only constant is change and that isn't about to change which makes for another interesting year in education ahead.
   Cheers and seasons greetings to you and yours from the staff and contributors at Education Today Magazine.

New Director for the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
Professor Tim Brown will commence as Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) in January 2019, his contributions to Year 12 and tertiary entrance assessments in Victoria and the system for ATAR are some of his most high profile achievements.
He believes strengthening mathematics starts in the classroom saying it was the influence of a teacher that had impacted his engagement and love of maths. Read more