Teachers who take jobs in subjects or schools that are hard to staff should be paid more, the Productivity Commission has recommended. There also should be a clear performance-based career progression to reward quality teachers. In its report on Australia's schools workforce, released ...
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Philanthropy and Schools – A Changing Paradigm
Philanthropy can reveal much about the true fabric of a nation. As much as Australians might take great pride in the values of mateship and the fair-go, this does not always translate into clear measurable outputs when it comes to ...
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Professional development scholarships to the value of $30,000 are on offer to staff in the independent education sector. For the third successive year, NGS Super is awarding six educators up to $5000 each to spend on improving their skills through ...
More »Reinvigorating the History of Education
Dr Paul Brock gave us reasons in 2010 (Learning from the paths we have trodden to get to where we are now. Australian Educational Leader, Vol. 33, No 1 2011). Brock used the metaphor of history as a spiral. We ...
More »A National Professional Standard for Principals – an Australian achievement
I feel privileged to have been part of a community of professionals developing the National Standard for Principals in Australia. From the start we have endeavoured to capture what Australian principals need to know, understand and do in one of ...
More »Neither rhyme nor reason
To venture into the world of schools funding is to experience what Alice felt when she fell down a rabbit hole and emerged in a world where things became 'curiouser and curiouser'. For there are aspects of schools funding that ...
More »Opportunities abound for curriculum consultation
Just because the first four sections of the Australian Curriculum have been endorsed by federal, state and territory education ministers does not mean that work on this program is complete – or that the opportunity for teachers to have their ...
More »Launching the Teachers Standards’ website
The Standards were released by Education Ministers in February and are a public statement of what constitutes teacher quality. They define the elements of high-quality, effective teaching in 21st-century schools and provide a framework that makes clear the knowledge, practice ...
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The App lays out the exposure draft of the National Professional Standard for Principals. The Standard is represented as an integrated model that recognises three leadership requirements that a principal draws upon within five areas of professional practice. Pilot studies ...
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Educational leaders from the government and nongovernment sectors, the professional associations, the institutes of leadership around the country and the teacher unions came together to hear the findings of the ten pilots studies which had been conducted to test the ...
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