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The one report on teaching you need to read
There’s a lot going on in the world, so you’d be forgiven for missing a big story that was announced nearly two weeks ago. It’s certainly bigger than Rupert Murdoch’s sixth fiancée , and Taylor Swift’s hotel choices, but naturally got a lot less coverage. Although confronting troubles around the world desperately deserve immediate attention, …
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 …
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 …
Teachers now: Why I left and where I’ve gone
“When you are a high achieving person, teaching sets you up for failure because you are never enough for everybody.” The teaching profession is in crisis. By 2025, the federal government estimates a shortfall of more than 4,000 high school teachers across the country. While there is a significant body of research that has tracked …
One day to go: the great education reckoning as parties eye the election prize
The ‘education election’? Before heading to the polling booths this Saturday, we take stock of how the major political parties, and the newly formed Public Education Party, stack up over their policies and priorities for education. It has been a difficult time for public education over the last decade. Research has documented that the teaching …
How to fix the teacher shortage
Teacher shortages are not a new thing. It is difficult to envisage a time when every school in …
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 …
Just like us: why Australian students need teachers from everywhere
Our dwindling teacher workforce makes headlines every week and new Education Minister Jason Clare calls it “a massive …
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 …