Teaching
Northland machete brawlers should be kicked out of school, government says
The state government is giving principals expanded powers to punish out-of-school conduct, but the profession is worried.
- Noel Towell, Nicole Precel and Bridie Smith
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Unholy workplace row brewing in state’s Catholic schools
Catholic school teachers and their employers cannot even agree on the framework for talks on a new wage deal.
- Noel Towell
WA teachers aren’t applying to become principals. This retiring school leader knows why
“I loved the job and wouldn’t change it for the world ... but people see how demanding it is and are choosing not to put their hand up.”
- Holly Thompson
Counting controversy: IPA sticks to claim that maths curriculum is 3500 pages long
The think tank says Australia’s maths curriculum is too complicated and packed with ideology. The body that writes the curriculum doesn’t agree.
- Madeleine Heffernan and Kishor Napier-Raman
‘Nothing in my degree to prepare me for that’: Why student teachers face big changes
Australian universities have until the end of the year to overhaul more than 280 teacher training courses.
- Lucy Carroll
Universities radically reform teaching degrees as deadline looms
Everything Leah Myers knew about her job was “flipped on its head” after sweeping reforms to teacher training followed a national review.
- Alex Crowe
WA students with ‘maths dyslexia’ fall through the cracks as crisis worsens
The low percentage of WA students excelling in maths means those with the learning disorder dyscalculia are falling through the cracks.
- Holly Thompson
How these schools are teaching their way out of a national maths crisis
Australia has been too slow to scrap “faddish, unproven” maths teaching methods, a new report says. These schools have found the secret to success.
- Lucy Carroll
WA high school teachers banned for sexualising female students
Court documents have revealed that in both cases, the men’s conduct was “so serious that it is likely to bring the teaching profession into disrepute”.
- Holly Thompson
Queensland investing less in state school students than every other state, except Victoria
Queensland students have been receiving thousands of dollars less in state government funding than their interstate counterparts, data reveals.
- Marissa Calligeros
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