The importance of art in the classroom
The arts are all about how we perceive the world through the senses, and sort into order and harmony the welter of stimuli from outside us and within us, to create meaningful reality.

Something big is happening in VELS science
By taking a big ideas approach in your science classroom, you will enhance students’ ability to make meaningful connection between the many discrete facts and skills the syllabus prescribes (e.g. microscopes, cell organelles, classification) and to connect them in a meaningful framework (e.g. living systems).

Developing Successful Readers: From Assessment to Instruction
While class reading programs will have many parts that make up the whole, effective educators can use guided reading sessions to teach specific reading strategies to groups of students identified as having similar learning needs. Skilful planning and teaching enables educators to maximise the time they spend with each guided reading group.

A Fresh Perspective on Legal Education
The first key to bringing a lecture alive is enthusiasm, letting the students see the passion that you have for the subject. The second factor is preparation. There is no substitute for rehearsing. All the important aspects of public speaking, including clarity, pace, eye contact, structure and empathy are directly relevant to lecturing.

AGTA 2008 Awards
Congratulations to author, Iain Hay, for winning an AGTA award.

Australian Learning & Teaching Council Citations
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citations recognise and reward excellence in higher education teaching and practice.

6 Ways Educators use IWB
Interactive whiteboards (IWB) are becoming increasingly popular for educators who want to share ideas with their students and involve them in learning with technology. A powerful instructional tool, it can be adapted for use with a wide range of subjects and ages.

Oxford Wordlist Research Summary
Professor Joseph Lo Bianco and Ms Janet Scull from the University of Melbourne examine the data gathered through the Oxford Wordlist research study.

Oxford Wordlist
Use the Oxford Wordlist interactive tool to discover the words most frequently used by and across the profile groups.

Welcome to The Successful Teacher
The Successful Teacher is an online site specifically created for primary school educators to provide access to professional support in their work with students in Australian schools.

Speaking our Language
For the first time ever the story of Australian English is told in full. As part of our Centenary celebrations Oxford Australia is proud to be publishing this significant contribution to the national landscape.

Defining Australian English
Oxford University Press has an unrivalled reputation for publishing dictionaries of authority and excellence throughout the English-speaking world. This long-standing commitment to the English language is reflected notably in the world’s most famous dictionary, The Oxford English Dictionary.

Australian Word of the Year
In 2006 the Australian National Dictionary Centre chose the verb and noun podcast as its word of the year, acknowledging the fact that this international word had spread with extraordinary speed and ubiquity. For 2007...

Stunned Mullets & Two-pot Screamers
Wherever there is a ‘standard’ and a ‘colloquial’ way of saying the same thing — a choice between Don’t try to impose on me and Don’t come the raw prawn — the colloquial expression will typically be the more informal and the less respectful.

Centenary Fun Day
A staff 'fun day' was held on April 24 at the South Melbourne offices of Oxford University Press as part of the celebrations to mark the 100th consecutive year of publishing in Australia. The event was launched by Michael Danby, local Federal Member for Melbourne Ports.

Streamlining Processes
Oxford University Press is continually developing tools to support staff to ensure there is consistency in the information provided to our customers.

New Benchmarks Achieved
Between June and October 2007 ‘Project Phoenix’ was implemented. The Distribution Team made a commitment to rise from the ashes of an old and outdated system and offer our customers not only an improved service but a consistency of service all year round.

Our Gift to the Nation
As part of Oxford Australia's centenary celebrations, The Australian National Dictionary is being made available free online.

Improving academic writing skills
The most frequent 2,000 words in the English language account for around 75–80 percent of a textbook, depending on the level of technical vocabulary in the book. The Academic Word List (AWL), developed by Averil Coxhead from Massey University in New Zealand accounts for a further 10% of the words in articles or textbooks.

Teaching Composite Classes
The key to appreciating the benefits of composite classes is in understanding that growth is determined in stages and not by ages.

The New Oxford Wordlist
The Oxford Wordlist for Australian kids is the result of an extensive and rigorous research study conducted in Australian schools in 2007.

Using Maps with Young Children
Imagining how shapes may look from different angles is the key to understanding maps and mathematical spatial concepts.

Popular Media Images of Crime
The images that permeate popular consciousness of crime are mainly generated by, and reflected in, the electronic and print media.

Carrick Awards 2007
Oxford University Press congratulates all recipients of 2007 Awards and Citations, and in particular we celebrate the achievements of our authors.

Wellness and Recovery
A state of wellness is compatible with the presence of chronic disease and disability, depending on the perceptions of individuals and the ways in which health conditions are managed.

Teaching Indigenous Perspective
When teaching non-indigenous children about Indigenous people it is important to include Aboriginal perspectives across the curriculum to ensure that Aboriginal Australia becomes a constant reference point for students.

Introducing a New Partnership
It is the shared goal of Oxford University Press and the Fifteen Foundation to educate, inspire and empower youth through education.

Big Ideas Help Students Connect Learning
Research has revealed that students retain information better when it is connected to major ideas and themes.

Map Colours - Seeing is Not Always Believing
Oxford University Press in Australia is taking the atlas research on map colours in a new direction.

Historical Literacy in the Classroom
Theoretically, by 2011, all school students in Australia will be taught history as a core part of the curriculum. Not ‘Australian History’, please note, but a more general and, as yet undefined, version.

Oxford's Australian centenary
Oxford University Press is one of the oldest publishing enterprises in the world, as well as one of the largest. Oxford University Press Australia officially turned 100 in April and, to celebrate this auspicious occasion, a special programme of centenary events and publications will be launched throughout the course of the year.

Literacy & Indigenous Kids
Oxford University Press has been working with The Fred Hollows Foundation and local Indigenous kids and teachers from around Australia to capture their stories and publish them.