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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 …
The government knows how to help teachers. And it’s not more reform.
A decade after LSLD was implemented, it became evident there were no improved educational outcomes across the State’s schools. …
TeachING quality is not teachER quality. How we talk about ‘quality’ matters
The language we use to discuss the work of teachers in the public domain matters. It matters to our shared understanding of education as a society and it impacts on teachers’ work both directly and indirectly. My research at the moment focuses in part on the notion of quality in education, specifically how issues of …
It is not easy being a teacher: my story
I did not become a teacher the day I walked out of university. I was trained as a …