ECU is celebrating the 100th Fogarty Foundation Scholarship, marking the Foundation’s enduring commitment to inspiring excellence in education and leadership. A special event was held at The Claremont Hotel, bringing the total number of scholarships awarded to date to 102!
Edith Cowan University (ECU) has introduced a new program designed to support those studying teaching to cope with the financial challenges that come with completing their final year full-time professional experience placement.
ECU is further steering the charge to help produce Australia’s teachers of tomorrow with the launch of the Future Teachers Fund. Thanks to public support, it will provide a $5,000 Scholarship per student, to those who are most in need of financial support during their final year professional experience placement.
Many Year 10 students are beginning to think seriously about what subjects they might pick for years 11 and 12.
Getting Ella to go to school has long been a battle for her schoolteacher mum. But it was the COVID-19 lockdowns that triggered the start of full-blown school refusal.
New findings from a three year study led by ECU has found a direct link between furniture, student learning and teaching. Children said they learn better when they choose what they learn on, and that includes fitballs and ottomans.
Recognise and celebrate ECU graduates doing extraordinary things by nominating them for an ECU Alumni Award. Nominations forms for each of the four categories are available to download.
New research from ECU's School of Education has found standardised testing of Australian students is having a detrimental effect on the way pre-school children are learning and engaging.
Mathematical ideas, concepts or procedures are interconnected; they therefore cannot be understood well in isolation. Mathematical connections made in the classroom give students opportunities to relate mathematical ideas, concepts, meanings and procedures to each other, and to see mathematics as an integrated whole (see Coxford, 1995). Not all mathematics classroom practices, however, satisfy this desire.
Australian children’s author Gabrielle Wang grew up reading mostly British books and later read Roald Dahl to her children. “I love Roald Dahl books,” says Wang, who last year was named Australian Children’s Laureate, a two-year role to promote the transformational power of reading in the lives of young Australians.
Edith Cowan University has published new research on the benefits of allowing children to create their own workspaces as opposed to pre-arranged classrooms, with results revealing significant outcomes in their working habits and productivity in the classroom.
I knew assessment season was upon us when my son frantically asked me one morning before school if I had any spare pens in my bag. Despite the fact most tests have moved online, it appears the fear of ink in a pen running out remains a timeless stress factor.
The Tertiary Institutions Service Centre recently made the decision to neither compile nor publish schools’ median ATAR scores.
A prominent WA public primary school has cancelled its annual overnight camp for Year 6 students because of concerns about adding to teachers’ workloads and the difficulty of catering for kids’ dietary requirements.
Impact of classroom experiences on students' maths learning, possible causes of disengagement.