Education Minister Jason Clare says completion rates for teaching degrees are 50% compared to 70% for other degrees. This sounds alarming but there is a different way to look at the figures.
- Professor and Director, Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion, Adelaide University
As NSW overhauls its approach to suspensions, school discipline continues to be one of the most difficult issues in Australian schools.
Attendance at school is crucial to improving educational outcomes for students. Unfortunately, children in out-of-home care face myriad challenges when it comes to attending school every day.
Newly qualified teachers who aren’t involved in a good induction program are more likely to leave the profession within their first five years of teaching. And most don’t get these inductions.
What are the rules around suspensions and expulsions in NSW, and the rest of Australia? And what needs to be done to reduce discrimination?
If we don’t find ways to keep new teachers in schools then we face a teacher shortage, larger class sizes and more people teaching outside their field of expertise.
Teachers should seriously reconsider using technology to monitor behaviour because of the negative impact it could have on students.
Leaving teachers to deal with challenging behaviour on their own can be unproductive and stressful.
Schools need to avoid practices that exclude badly behaved students and instead offer more ongoing, personalised support.
The national review of teacher education, released last week, emphasised that teaching graduates need to enter the classroom with practical skills for handling a classroom, and not just knowledge of the…
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