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Queensland Secondary had a very eventful few days in June, dashing between events to meet with educators and leaders from across the state. A huge thank you to QAMT, MLTAQ and ConQEST for accommodating Pearson at your events. In this blog Lilly Dell, Pearson's Queensland Key Account Manager shares her experience of these fantastic events!

In sunny Darwin, Pearson joined Sheena Cameron and literacy enthusiasts from across Australia at the 2022 AATE/ALEA Conference in July 2022. At the conference, Sheena Cameron delivered her plenary keynote ‘What does research tell us about the most effective ways to support students to understand what they read? and launched the new editions of her highly anticipated teacher resource books.

From 16 November 2021, Australian schools can access an improved eBook interface that aims to make the digital teaching and learning resource even easier for them to use in the classroom, at home or wherever they need to access their content

Deb Irving, Maths Consultant reviewing Mathology Little Books, a standalone component of Mathology F-3, Pearson Australia. This review also appeared in The Mathematical Association of Victoria's publication The Common Denominator (Term 4 2021, page 22).

Sharing Our Stories is a landmark series addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures in the primary classroom. Produced by Pearson and the SharingStories Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that works with Indigenous communities, the series aims to protect, maintain and grow language, stories and cultural heritage using digital technologies and art forms for the benefit of children. In this blog, Deryn Mansell, editor of the Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council's (VALBEC) publication 'fine print', reviews the series.

In this session originally presented at the 2021 AFMLTA conference, Gabriella, Annabel and Nathan give insights into ways to nurture and develop viewing skills and intercultural competence with students of Languages. They cover some key principles and share some ideas of activities, routines and prompts to use in the Languages classroom. Video kindly shared by Gabriella, Annabel and Nathan.

Many of the out of field professionals teaching mathematics bring teaching expertise from other subject areas. While often these teachers have some mathematical skills, or were proficient mathematics students at school, it can't be assumed they have a ready to use ‘tool-kit’ to foster the development of conceptual understanding.

Pearson’s own Sabine Bolick and Liz Hatton invite you to join them in the on-demand webinar “Teaching decodable reading strategies with Bug Club Phonics”. In this 1-hour professional learning session, Sabine and Liz will cover questions at the core of successful phonics teaching

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The exam period is undoubtedly one of the most stressful times on our children’s higher education calendar. Throw in a global pandemic, as well as widespread lockdowns and our kids have themselves caught up in a really challenging (and strange) learning environment web that’s good one minute, and terrible the next

How do you build a series to help students read with full comprehension, and engage with subject-area knowledge in a meaningful way?

We asked Dr Weekes how Pearson’s new science and humanities student resources were designed, to be accessible while developing technical literacy.

Children with intact sensory modulation are better able to maintain an alert, focused state. Normally this process happens automatically and effortlessly, but this is not always the case. So how do we ensure our classrooms are supporting sensory modulation in all students?

We asked Dr Melissa Barnes to help us unpack how teachers can help literacy needs of EAL/D students.

If they see it, they’ll know they can be it: The importance of female mentors in STEM

How do we close the gap when time’s up on gender disparity in STEM?

Pearson commissioned research by Oxford University and global think tank, Nesta, about the Future of Skills. The research applied machine learning to trawl through massive jobs datasets to identify both the occupations and - critically - the skills predicted to experience increased demand by 2030.

Curious about where advancement in automation will leave the future of tertiary education? So is Pearson. Let's explore it together!

Greg Whitby is the Executive Director of Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta and has been developing evidence-based strategies to overhaul the education industry.

AI won’t replace university anytime soon, in fact demand for teachers will increase. It’s just that, the skills they’ll need to get a job will change.

One of the first longitudinal studies of health and wellbeing impacts of a 10,000 step challenge, where participants form teams and log their daily steps or other exercise over 75 days.

Seventy-eight per cent of Australian learners say the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed education as we know it, according to a study released in Australia today

Each year the Australian Publishing Association recognises excellence and innovation with their annual Educational Publishing Awards Australia. Pearson is proud to have been recognised in three categories at the 2021 Educational Publishing Awards Australia.