Ensuring all reach potential
27 November 2023
Section: Columns
Enabling Equity: Education Quarterly, Issue 8 2023 Through the national For Every Child campaign teachers continue to ensure students with…
Pursuing support issues with Department
8 September 2023
Section: Columns
Enabling Equity: Education Quarterly, Issue 7 2023 Federation regularly receives enquiries regarding the access of support for students with complex…
Investment in student wellbeing
8 June 2023
Section: Columns
Enabling Equity: Education Quarterly, Issue 6 2023 Figures released in February show student wellbeing has hit a new low and…
Disability support classes are a state responsibility
16 March 2023
Section: Columns
Enabling Equity: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 The provision of support classes to enable the engagement of students with disability…
Registered Nurse Must Be Maintained At Special Education School In St Ives
22 October 2021
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation demands the retention of a Registered Nurse (RN) position at Sir Eric Woodward School for Special Purposes at St Ives.
Teachers rise to the challenge
24 August 2021
Section: Columns
There is no question that adjusting to remote learning during the current COVID-19 lockdown is affecting all teachers, students and school communities, however, the situation for teachers in schools for specific purposes (SSP) and support units is particularly complex.
Inspiring others to find their inner ‘powers’
30 May 2021
Section: News
It would be wonderful to see schools recognising and implementing strategies to support teachers with multiple sclerosis (MS), so they can stay as valued members of the workforce, said North Curl Curl Public School teacher Maxine Gourley.
Learning and support teachers
3 December 2020
Section: Columns
There are multiple roles teachers fill in contributing to the support of students with disability and additional learning and support needs including the learning and support team, the classroom teacher and the Learning and Support Teacher (LaST).
Disability: secret report exposes new wave
3 December 2020
Section: News
A confidential NSW government report has shed light on a critical and burgeoning challenge for public education as the number of students with disabilities is predicted to grow by 50 per cent in the decade to 2027.
Media release: Students with disability to increase by 50% within a decade
3 September 2020
Section: Media Release
A confidential NSW Department of Education disability strategy obtained under FOI laws has revealed inadequacies in planning for the state’s students with disabilities.
Young People from Refugee and Migrant Backgrounds with Disabilities
20 August 2020
Section: Columns
What are the main issues and concerns raised by young CALD people living with a disability?
Department advice on disability data collection during COVID
11 August 2020
Section: News
The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) provides information about the number of students with disability in schools and the adjustments they receive.
Students with disabilities left behind
31 July 2020
Section: News
As new reports highlight the growing funding gap between public and private students, research during the pandemic reveals that parents of students with a disability felt their children had been “left behind by Australia’s education system” during the crisis.
Staffing win helping to support students with disability during COVID-19
20 May 2020
Section: Columns
The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard our classes and teachers of students with disability. Responsive staff, additional staffing and the loud call for a targeted response to unique site and student needs relieved what threatened to be a disastrous outcome.
SSP and IEC teachers addressing additional complications to provide remote learning
9 April 2020
Section: News
Teachers in Schools for Special Purposes and Intensive English Centres are working with a unique set of challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic as they strive to provide educational continuity for students with special needs and English as an additional language or dialect requirements.
Support the safety of all
11 March 2020
Section: Columns
Safety in schools for teachers, support staff and students is paramount.
Federation negotiations secure extra staff for SSPs
21 February 2020
Section: News
A Federation campaign has helped secure $37 million funding for extra staff across all Schools for Specific Purposes (SSPs) during 2020.
Enabling Equity
30 November 2019
Section: Columns
Programming for students with disability in regular classes in mainstream schools
Enabling Equity
13 November 2019
Section: Columns
Inadequate government funding for students with disability continues to put increasing pressure on all public school settings as they work to meet the learning needs of all their students.