Tagged with School of Education and Professional Studies

Teaching jobs are bucking the trend of shortages and are tipped to have the biggest oversupply of employment opportunities in Australia by 2022.

Treating anxiety in children on the autism spectrum may help to significantly improve their quality of life a Griffith University study published in Autism Research has found. “For many years, researchers have been reporting that children on the autism spectrum have poorer quality of life than neurotypical children, with most studies suggesting that this was […]

An English-Samoan bi-lingual kindergarten in Logan has proven successful in connecting young children with their heritage language and culture.

Griffith University’s School of Education and Professional Studies celebrated 50 years of delivering teacher education programs at Mt Gravatt campus on Wednesday, April 10. Alumni, students and lecturers, past and present comprised the 450-strong gathering to celebrate the school’s abiding legacy of excellence in teacher education. More than 40,000 education students have graduated from teaching […]

Bardon State School Year three teacher and Jake Eve chose Griffith because of its strong reputation in education. “I chose Griffith because I heard it was a great university for education degrees,’’ the world champion skipper says. Jake, who won the 2018 World Skipping Championships in Shanghai, has been skipping competitively since he was nine-years-old. […]

Inspirational mathematics educator Dr Kevin Larkin has been named Universities Australia 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year.

Professional development is needed to increase teacher knowledge about anxiety-related behaviours in students with autism.