Tag: teachers
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Media Stories and Stats Don’t Cut It
by Cheryl Lacey, DSJ, Take The Lead On Education™, ©2024 (Aug. 6, 2024) — It’s always about people: Individuals or Tribes? 1600 teachers in Victoria are under investigation with the states registration body – Victorian Institute of Teaching. (That’s at June 2023) In actual figures that’s 1600 out of 52,399 full time equivalent teachers – 3%…
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The Weight of Trust
by Cheryl Lacey, Thought Starters On Education, ©2023 (Jun. 26, 2023) — Sexuality education happens in schools. It might be in the intended curriculum – the publicly available document that describes what decision makers have agreed will be taught. It might be in the hidden curriculum – opinions, values, attitudes, and approaches, that might or might…
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Teacher Abuse Rampant
by Cheryl Lacey, ©2022 (Nov. 23, 2022) — Occupational health and safety issues are being ignored in schools. Burnout, stress, mass resignations, poaching of staff, and dependency on teaching out-of-field are endemic in schools. Teachers cram their workload into a 40-week calendar instead of enjoying a healthy 48-week work year. The impact is affecting teachers…
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Our Children Matter
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Nov. 10, 2021) — Children matter. Last week’s voting reveals a groundswell of parental objection to the cultural revolution. Who do children belong to? The public schools? They are the future of their families, their communities, their nation and their species. Amongst all competing worldviews, the family, the community, the nation will…
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School Holidays Are Definitely ‘Vacations’
(Jun. 16, 2021) — With just a few weeks before Victorian schools start their end of term holiday, or ‘vacation’, there’s a timely question we need to ask: Are schools providing maximum value? by Cheryl Lacey, ©2021 More than 2,260 schools, some of them with state-of-the-art facilities and 21st century architecture, will be well and…
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What Makes Students Cheat, and is it Entirely their Fault?
“YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY…” by Contributor (Sep. 24, 2019) — Cheating among students is one of the major problems that teachers and college instructors cite most often. Ranging from elementary schools to colleges and universities, ubiquitous in private and public schools alike, this issue is a growing concern for parents and teachers, so much so that…