Working while sick:Our post-pandemic dilemma
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Opinion

Working while sick:Our post-pandemic dilemma

A school student,stuck at home with COVID,emailed to ask how sick is too sick. It is a question we could all be forced to grapple with into the future.

  • byMarise McConaghy

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Canada’s coding kids make themselves job-ready
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Canada’s coding kids make themselves job-ready

The evolution of the global job market represents one of the motivations at the heart of the integration of programming in school curricula.

  • byHugo G Lapierre andPatrick Charland
‘I love working with children’:Having a part in teaching future generations is a privilege

‘I love working with children’:Having a part in teaching future generations is a privilege

The skills necessary to be a primary school principal are wide and varied,and every day is different.

  • byMelissa Beggs
‘Early in my teaching career,the first job was to split chips with an axe’

‘Early in my teaching career,the first job was to split chips with an axe’

Growing up on a farm and being handy with an axe helped Jennifer Winkel for some unexpected work as a teacher in a small rural school.

  • byJennifer Winkel
Disney and real-world relatability can make commerce learning fun

Disney and real-world relatability can make commerce learning fun

Commerce lecturer Dr Prashan Karunaratne turns to Disney films and other non-textbook examples to build fun into business and economics and bring it into students’ everyday lives.

  • bySusan Skelly
Sculptor loves shaping the lives of the students she teaches

Sculptor loves shaping the lives of the students she teaches

When Kate Stehr is asking her students to push themselves with their art making,it comes from personal experience.

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‘My book ideas took off when I began spending time with young people’

‘My book ideas took off when I began spending time with young people’

Educator by day,children’s book author by night:Yvette Poshoglian says her two careers complement each other as young people inspire her.

‘Education is serious business,but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun’

‘Education is serious business,but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun’

The spark in a student’s eyes when they’ve ‘got it’ and they understand makes it all worthwhile for St Mary’s Primary Rydalmere Principal Richard Blissenden.

The show must go on ... but what if it doesn’t?
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The show must go on ... but what if it doesn’t?

It can feel embarrassing for any of us to ask for help. But for a person in the public eye,it can feel doubly so.

  • byJim Bright
Actions have a positive impact on our school community

Actions have a positive impact on our school community

I enjoy being part of a diverse community that has a strong sense of social justice.

Teaching in remote communities,‘you can make a real difference’

Teaching in remote communities,‘you can make a real difference’

Two public school teachers tell their stories of unlikely moves from the lush north coast of NSW to the red,sandy country of Sunraysia,in the state’s south-west.

  • byMichael Coleman andKathryn Steward