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Education: the five concerns we should debate right now
Meghan Stacey on the trouble with teaching Deb Hayes on making school systems more equitable. Phillip Dawson on how we should treat ChatGPT. Sarah O’Shea on widening participation at university. Scott Eacott on the Productivity Commission’s review of the National School Reform Agreement. The trouble with teaching by Meghan Stacey Last year was a big …
To save democracy, we need to flip the system
In her book Teacher, Gabbie Stroud beautifully encapsulates what is happening by stealth to the teaching profession: “Good teaching …comes from teachers who know their students, who build relationships, who meet learners at their point of need and who recognize that there’s nothing standard about the journey of learning. We cannot forget the art of …
How teachers can change our world for the better
Hello and happy new year. We start 2023 with a first for the blog: Nina Burridge and John Buchanan in conversation on Teachers as Changemakers in an Age of Uncertainty from the book Empowering Teachers and Democratising Schooling. Nina: What is a good education in the current context? What are your thoughts on this? John: …
From global to local – how the world shapes learning
Here is another of our intermittent blogs during the #AARE2022 conference. If you want to cover a session at …
It’s so dramatic: what new play Chalkface gets very right about being a teacher
Chalkface is a new play about teachers, currently being staged by the Sydney Theatre Company and playing at …
Anonymous writes: I became a better teacher during COVID. I didn’t yet know I had cancer
Remember the COVID shutdowns? Remember the months of remote teaching? As a middle school teacher, I thought I …
If only we really wanted to solve the problems
Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …
How to support our proud and essential profession
Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …
Will the Quality Time Action Plan reduce teacher workload?
Teachers want more time for lesson planning, not less. Last week, the NSW Department of Education released the Quality Time Action Plan, intended to “simplify administrative practices in schools”. Having highlighted the concerning growth in administrative workload in schools in a report based on a survey of more than 18,000 teachers for the NSW Teachers …
The terrible trap of temporary teaching: I need to do more to get a job next year
These days, there’s a new kind of teacher in NSW public schools: the ‘temporary’ teacher. The category of temporary employment, a version of fixed-term contract work, was introduced in 2001. The category has been steadily growing while the proportion of permanent positions has declined and casual positions have remained relatively stable, as indicated in Figure …