Monday, 4 Sep 2023
Learning through play is highly effective in improving student and teacher wellbeing and could help address two of the biggest challenges in education today, experts say.
Read articleWednesday, 30 Aug 2023
Differences in priorities and the language used to describe teaching and learning in early childhood and school are hurdles to children’s development, a conference in Sydney next week will hear.
Read articleTuesday, 22 Aug 2023
ACER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Parker gave a keynote presentation to launch a series of STEM playful learning workshops in St Louis in August.
Read articleThursday, 10 Aug 2023
In an interview with Teacher magazine, Research Conference 2023 keynote speaker, Professor Anne Castles discussed some of the research on learning to read, and what delegates can expect from her presentation.
Read articleWednesday, 26 Jul 2023
If you had to choose two facts to show how extensive brain development is between birth and 12 years, they might be these:
90% of a child’s brain develops in the first 5 years of life.
The connections in a 3-year-old’s brain are understood to number around 1000 trillion and reduce through the next 10 years to settle at around 500 trillion in adolescence.
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