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In last week’s newsletter I wrote about the sense of relief that students feel upon the completion of their studies and how the media exacerbates this by reporting on the HSC every day. You can set your watch by it can’t you? Seriously. Well, twenty-four hours before NSW student sat for their first [...]
As Year 12 students across Australia prepare for their final school examinations, it will be interesting to note how the media reports the reaction of the students after each subject exam. In NSW, the Sydney Morning Herald reports daily on the exams of the previous day, citing teachers, students and parents as to whether [...]
Dan Haesler asks which should come first, wellbeing or education? This is a no brainer - and possibly the wrong question altogether! The national and international evidence is quite clear: though we have yet to persuade all school principals across Australia - and probably most politicians - to believe the evidence. It is unequivocal that [...]
Another week, another call for social media to be part of the Australian schooling curriculum. For what it’s worth I wholeheartedly endorse any approach that is more proactive and meaningful to the way we currently address social media in schools. Imagine for a second if we taught our teenagers to drive a car in the [...]
Assuming you and your school place student welfare/wellbeing high on your list of priorities, here are three questions to consider. Who is the significant adult in the life of a 21st Century student? How and where do they spend most of their time? With whom do they converse most? Is it their parents? Is it fair [...]
We all know the general message that "Student wellbeing is important as it impacts on their ability to learn and achieve." But just as wellbeing affects education, I believe it is crucially important to understand how education affects wellbeing. How we educate our students can have a direct impact on their wellbeing - and ours! It's [...]
Last week the Federal Government officially responded to the Gonski Report. I’m sure you heard the rousing call to arms from our Prime Minister Julia Gillard. To avoid the risk of misquoting the Prime Minister, I’ve linked to the official media release. In it Ms Gillard says: Over the past decade Australian students have fallen [...]
This relatively new condition is also one of the most – if not the most – prevalent in the Western world. Like most phobias, sufferers report bouts of severe anxiety and irrational fear. According to a recent survey, as many as 66% of us suffer Nomophobia. But what is it? Nomophobia is also known as [...]
Mindsets Professor Carol Dweck has written a great book called Mindset – the new psychology of success. In it she speaks of two mindset: Fixed and Growth. In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing [...]
This week the Australian Rugby League moved to ban schoolboy rugby league matches from taking place on grounds with alcohol branded advertising. Since the 80s the best schools around the country have played fixtures as curtain raisers to NRL games, giving the boys the opportunity to play on the famous grounds in front of a [...]
