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In this uncertain environment, the type of learning resources and tools available to learners is more important than ever. That’s why our team is working hard to provide Australian schools with access to the types of resources that will help learning continue in these difficult times, including expert tips for remote teaching as well as gold standard learning resources.

Pearson is the world’s learning company. Backed by over 25 years of experience in online learning, our team of academics, call centre advisors, instructional and content designers are ready to help you meet this unprecedented challenge caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

We have provided a collection of free resources to help you plan, prepare and rise above the challenges of COVID-19

Pearson digital resources are available for international university students to purchase and access from countries, such as China, Vietnam and Taiwan.

In 2018, Rosie Scholl, Head of Curriculum at Buranda State School set out to find a reading assessment system that would deliver what her teachers and learners needed – a whole-school approach to literacy assessment. Read more to find out why Scholl chose to implement Fountas & Pinnell Literacy's Benchmark Assessment System (BAS) in place of PM Benchmark Assessment and PROBE.

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.

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.

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.

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

Pearson consultant psychologist Stewart D’Silva and Jared Cooney Horvath (PhD, MEd) give teachers and special educators the keys to mental wellbeing and readiness to learn

Julia Shaw shares her highlights from the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria (HTAV) Conference 2020 plus, her top tips for teachers attending virtual conferences as they become more common.

We hope to get the chance to connect with you at one of the conferences we’ll be a part of this year

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?

The literacy of our students rests on the quality of their resources, and each subject has its own distinctive literacy demands. Here is the down-low on Humanities.

Pearson has worked in collaboration with a partnership of regional schools in South Australia to improve students’ education and learning through reading and literacy programs.

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.

Considering the accessibility of MOOCs and Google, you’d think that the demand for teachers is in decline. But actually, the opposite is true.

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.

Here at Pearson Australia, we don’t just think that learning changes lives, we know it does. That’s why in 2019 we embarked on a three-year partnership with The Smith Family

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.

At Pearson we were saddened to hear of the passing on 1 April of poet Bruce Dawe.