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So wrong: Inspirational campaigns will never work. Here’s why
The Federal government recently launched two high profile campaigns to attract people into the teaching profession. The first seeks to raise the status of teaching through a series of rather saccharine videos showcasing inspirational classroom teacher stories as “Be That Teacher” “Be That Teacher”. Costing a whopping $10 million this glossy marketing strategy aims to …
Where we’ve been in the year so far – and a quick visit with Tibetan students
Follow the link for this fascinating post: Innovating English language curriculum through translanguaging in Tibet: fostering plurilingual identity …
A frantic year for education. ICYMI – here are our big reads of the year
Thank you to our many wonderful readers so far this year – and particularly to our many wonderful …
What the remarkable Mr Laing did next
Editor’s note: In 2021, Paul Laing won EduResearch Matters Blog/Blogger of the Year Award, which recognises an outstanding …
What we must do now to rescue Australian schools
We expect education to be a catalyst for more equitable and inclusive societies yet too often governments and systems deploy one-stop solutions without detailed plans for how exactly improvements will be achieved or at what costs. The Building Education Systems for Equity and Inclusion report comes from an Academy of Social Sciences of Australia workshop …
Why restoring trust in teaching now could fix the teacher shortage
Burnout is blamed for an exodus of teachers contributing to ‘a teacher shortage crisis’ in Australian schools. The …
Why is there so much talk about teachers right now? Because we are afraid of them
The federal minister for education Jason Clare convened a roundtable to solve the teacher shortage on the eve of the new government’s Job Summit. Items on the agenda? It wasn’t hard to go past working conditions, status, and a growing, chronic teacher shortage as the impetus for history-making industrial action and considerable media coverage. Concerns about …
Why that one tweet went viral (and what we must do now to fix “teacher shortages”)
I almost never post on Twitter. Sometimes I like other people’s posts, but I’ve been a reluctant Twitter …
Here’s what a brave new minister for education could do right away to fix the horrific teacher shortage
The new Federal Minister for Education Jason Clare announced last Friday he would convene a Teacher Workforce Roundtable …
Teachers deserve more than love and praise. They deserve a raise.
Our second post on the NSW Teachers’ strike It has been 10 years since NSW public sector teachers …