Take a lockdown excursion
9 August 2021
Section: News
Lockdown doesn’t mean you can’t take your students to study a coastal rockpool, look at the lives of child convicts or explore the cultural landscape of Kakadu National Park.
NSW Teachers Federation Statement On Year 12 Announcement
6 August 2021
Section: Media Release
On the issue of the Government’s revised announcement regarding the face-to-face return of year 12 students
NSW Teachers Federation and the Independent Education Union of Australia NSW/ACT on the face-to-face return of Year 12 students
5 August 2021
Section: Media Release
Government and non-government school teachers have today called for a delay in the face-to-face return of Year 12 students.
Premier on notice over HSC return
4 August 2021
Section: News
Federation has advised members that it will consider all options available to protect the health and safety of teachers, students and our school communities should the Premier fail to heed the evidence and proceed with the announced return to face-to-face teaching of year 12 on 16 August.
HSC return to school plan must reflect health advice
28 July 2021
Section: Media Release
With Covid cases continuing to rise and trending in the wrong direction, today’s political announcement is clearly premature.
Teachers must get higher priority in vaccine roll-out
16 April 2021
Section: News
Federation has continued to pursue the interests of members regarding the roll out of the Covid 19 vaccine since August last year. This has included representations to the Federal Health Minister, NSW Minister for Education and alongside our colleagues at Unions NSW and the ACTU and AEU nationally.
A year to reflect upon
1 December 2020
Section: Columns
At about this time 12 months ago, years of drought and environmental mismanagement were culminating in a perfect storm that would bring loss, damage, fear and pain as large swathes of NSW terrifyingly burned out of control.
From crisis comes innovation to change nature of environmental education
29 November 2020
Section: News
One area of the NSW public school system particularly affected by COVID- 19 restrictions was the state’s 25 environmental and zoo education centres.
UK: COVID runs riot
28 November 2020
Section: News
With the COVID-19 crisis still raging, teacher unionists in the UK have deplored the falling school attendance rates and presented a plan to secure safe schools and ensure quality education during the pandemic.
Media release: Teachers welcome extra catch-up programs for public school students
10 November 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation welcomes the decision by the Berejiklian Government to fund a program of additional school-based support for students who have fallen behind in their studies because of the impact of Covid-19.
Covid got you feeling exhausted? Here’s why
Members are repeatedly reporting to Federation that they are exhausted, struggling in many cases to get their ‘mojo’ back in 2020 – bushfires, drought, floods and a global pandemic.
Why teachers have ordered an independent inquiry into the value of their work
4 September 2020
Section: Columns
If there is a silver lining in the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be the lessons we learn. Many of them will be about ourselves — our ability to adapt, endure and make sacrifices for the common good.
Art teachers draw inspiration in crisis
29 August 2020
Section: News
As classes shifted online in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, visual arts teachers faced additional challenges in the pursuit of curriculum continuity for their students.
Department rejects catch-up program for public HSC students
29 August 2020
Section: News
Public school HSC students have been left at a disadvantage after the Department of Education refused to pay for extra face-to-face learning hours as “catch-up” lessons.
Effects of pandemic hit refugee students most
25 August 2020
Section: Columns
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every country around the world.
In this crisis, Federation has you covered
13 August 2020
Section: News
Much of the business of Federation in 2020 has centred on the issues and concerns raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, largely unravelling the conflicting and confusing decisions and advice emanating from the state and federal governments at the height of the crisis.
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.
ARTEXPRESS reimagined due to COVID-19
10 August 2020
Section: News
The show must go on, as they say, and despite COVID closures, Artexpress has followed the rest of the creative world online.
New SIG to provide supportive network about sports education
7 August 2020
Section: News
Despite mandated hours for physical activity in public schools and a strong research base highlighting the importance of student involvement in physical activity, sport in schools is largely being left up to individual teachers to ensure its effective implementation.
Global education industry capitalises on pandemic crisis
7 August 2020
Section: News
Education International has launched ground-breaking new research that maps the extent of private actors’ influence in education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indigenous COVID-19 resource
6 August 2020
Section: News
As the COVID-19 pandemic increased concerns about the disruption to Aboriginal students’ studies, Indigenous educators developed an online resource for teachers to help re-engage Aboriginal students with school.