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Building wellbeing literacy through everyday self-care

Friday, 04 October 2024

Professor Narelle Lemon from ECU's School of Education, discusses re-thinking and re-framing wellbeing and everyday self-care at the ECU Lecture Series.

How to help your child return to school after a long illness, new diagnosis or an accident

Friday, 04 October 2024

It is very common for children to have a day or two away from school due to illness. But children can also miss much longer periods of schooling if they have a serious illness or injury.

Government school reforms need to start with 'coalition of the willing', says explicit teaching pioneer

Friday, 04 October 2024

The ACT Education Directorate will have to mobilise teachers who are willing to change their way of doing things if the Strong Foundations literacy and numeracy overhaul is to take hold in Canberra’s government schools, according to a pioneer of the science of learning and explicit teaching movement.

Study finds Australian children's picture books failing to represent diverse families

Friday, 04 October 2024

New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has revealed a lack of diverse family structures represented in Australian children's picture books. The study, led by Associate Professor Helen Adam, critically analysed a sample of 90 picture books from shortlisted and award-winning books in Australia from 2019 and 2020.

New earn as you learn teaching pathway for career changers and high achievers at ECU

Tuesday, 01 October 2024

The Federal Government and Edith Cowan University (ECU) have launched an exciting new employment-based pathway where eligible students will be paid while attaining teaching qualifications to tackle Australia's teacher shortage. It's called the High Achieving Teachers program, and it starts in Semester 1, 2025.

ECU addresses Western Australia’s ECT workforce crisis

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Western Australia has the distinction of being the state with the highest number of early childhood teacher (ECT) waivers in the nation, a worrying statistic which the Early Childhood team at Edith Cowan University (ECU) have taken dedicated steps to address through the creation of a unique entry point into the Bachelor of Education Early Childhood Studies (Y42).

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