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We have a massive teaching shortage. Here’s how to fix it
The Federal Department of Education predicts an alarming teacher shortage of 4,100 teachers by 2025. It is now …
Housing: how to fix the teacher shortage
Legislation requires governments to provide every child with a quality education, regardless of where they live and what school they attend. But meeting this requirement is at risk because of two crises: housing affordability and teacher shortages. As we require children and youth of a certain age to attend school, we need to be able …
Teacher shortages: Is teaching family-friendly now?
Teaching has rarely been a job where you could go home, simply forget about work and relax every night. However, even when the truth of the myth of family-friendly statements are interrogated, there remains public perception that teachers get ‘excessive’ holidays. What some people think of as family-friendly work environments, others criticise, claiming teachers have it too easy. …
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 …
Good question: Did the teaching panel even look at what’s available now?
Having been a reviewer of many ITE programs myself, I have seen a relatively high degree of consistency in relation to what is being taught, practised, and assessed regarding effective pedagogical practice and classroom management. …
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 …
Dear Premier, this will not work. Not now, not ever
A select number of teachers in NSW will soon be eligible for increased salaries of up to $152,000. This comes at a time when schools across Australia are facing devastating teacher shortages, while dwindling numbers of prospective teachers are pursuing teaching as a career. According to NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet, “This is seismic reform that …
When one shocking shortage led to another
Here is another of our intermittent blogs during the #AARE2022 conference. If you want to cover a session at the conference, please email jenna@aare.edu.au to check in. Thanks! Symposium: ‘Teacher shortages in Australian schools: reactive workforce planning for a wicked policy problem’ (post starts after the photos!) With nine people sitting on the floor, six standing, …
Why teacher unions matter now more than ever
Teachers are striking. Not just in NSW, Australia, where the NSW Teachers’ Federation went on strike when it …