Findings from the 2007 Schools Census released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), showed that in August 2007, there were 3.4 million school students, up from 3.2 million in August 1997, with the number of teachers growing to nearly 267 000. 
There may be hundreds of thousands of teachers in Australia, but if you ask any parent or teacher about the concentration span of a primary school child, and the answer will be much the same.They will be unanimous in saying that primary school children have short concentration spans and are quickly distracted.Having vibrant, enteresting and exciting teacher resources will ensure that wandering minds can be turned into enquiring minds in the classroom. 
Despite the advance of the computer age, teachers across Australia still rely on the time-tested methods of using traditional teaching aids to get the best out of their students.
For over half a century, Australian Teaching Aids have been supplying educators and retailers with a ever-increasing variety of products, from stickers to merit certificates, charts to benchmark books, stampers to novelty stationery.
There’s 8-year old Lachlan, carefully rubbing out his handwriting mistakes with a cute character pencil-top eraser and then carefully redoing his work with his novelty pencil.He’s proud of his work and his teacher is delighted.  No lollies for him, but he doesn’t mind.He gets a cool metallic sticker and a merit certificate which he then takes to the Principal for his signature.On his way there, his attention is caught by the laminated wall chart showing the chicken’s lifecycle.He loves the chart because he learns about the chooks that are kept in the shed outside.On the other side of the classroom, the teacher has stamped Kirsten’s maths book with a smiley face because the little learner had learned her times table off-pat from the wall chart.  It’s probably the thousandth time the teacher has used her self-inking stamp, which means there are 99 900 more impressions left in the stamper… and it’s re-inkable.   
All these products come from Australian Teaching Aids, which regularly updates and expands its range to meet changing teacher and curriculum needs.Teaching aids including merit certificates, stampers, book markers and book labels, wall charts and educational posters, benchmark books and stickers are a central feature of the primary school environment.
Encouragement and reward are proven performance incentives, and for pupils and teachers alike, teaching resources can go a long way in unlocking potential.