Association Spotlight: St George Teachers Association
6 December 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Across the Association there are teachers with a broad range of teaching experience, including a significant number of temporary/casual teachers.
Spectacular teachers big part of blockbuster
4 December 2019
Section: News
It’s not just singing and dancing students that make for the wonderful vibe that spreads through the stadium during Schools Spectacular performances
Union Bill busted
29 November 2019
Section: News
Federation and the ACTU have welcomed the defeat of the Morrison Government’s union-busting Ensuring Integrity Bill in the Senate.
There’s nothing casual about teaching
27 November 2019
Section: Columns
On my visits to schools, and through enquiries fielded by Officers, conversations with members are often the focus on the nature of temporary engagements.
There’s nothing casual about teaching
27 November 2019
Section: News
What mandatory training must a casual teacher undertake?
Pressed for time? Consider these suggestions
24 November 2019
Section: News
Our desire for a balanced life — where we are able to enjoy work, personal interests, family, social and leisure activities — can be put out of kilter by our obligations.
Collective opposition to system-wide setting of school targets
22 November 2019
Section: News
Federation and principal bodies have presented a united front in response to the Department of Education’s imposition of further layers of target-setting, which will add to the workload of teachers in public schools.
Drought package bypasses government schools
21 November 2019
Section: News
Public schools have again been neglected by the Morrison Government — this time in its drought package.
Education: connecting members for 100 years
18 November 2019
Section: News
“The journal is essentially the teachers’ organ, written … in the interests of teachers, and its pages are open to all who wish to use them.” (1919 Annual Report)
Schools offer oasis to salve the suffering
17 November 2019
Section: News
Amid the heat, dust and despair, schools across drought-stricken NSW are serving as an “oasis” for their local communities.
Release time high on agenda
16 November 2019
Section: News
Federation is pursuing the employment of additional permanent classroom, executive, specialist and non-school based teaching positions
Meetings commence on teacher salaries
15 November 2019
Section: News
Formal negotiations have commenced with the Department of Education around the new schools Award, which determines the salaries and working conditions of all teachers
Collaboration central to development process
13 November 2019
Section: News
“The overarching purpose of the performance and development process is to support the ongoing improvement of student outcomes through continuous development of a skilled, effective and professional teaching workforce.”
Support for schools in bushfire crisis
11 November 2019
Section: News
Schools, TAFE workplaces and local communities in several NSW regions are being significantly affected by bushfires.
Paper Plane
10 November 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Entering a primary classroom for a secondary teacher can be quite confronting. In my new job, I am working across both primary and secondary and last week found myself taking a grade 2 class for a lesson.
How many students should be in my class?
10 November 2019
Section: News
The schools Staffing Agreement 2016–2020, between the Department of Education and Federation, notes: “Class sizes will be planned generally on the following basis and will have regard to the needs of the school”
Federation saves jobs
10 November 2019
Section: News
Federation Representative at Broken Hill High School Jason Bradley has witnessed first hand the benefits of the staffing moratorium negotiated by Federation
Retired Teachers Association news
9 November 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
The Retired Teachers Association strongly condemns Prime Minister Scott Morrison for his November announcement of federal legislation to ban protests.
Bill takes aim at workers’ rights
7 November 2019
Section: News
Legislation presently before federal Parliament represents a grave threat to unions and the fundamental human right for workers to organise and act collectively.
Association Spotlight: Armidale Teachers Association
7 November 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
The best thing our Association has done in the past five years has been to win employment protections for our high school teachers.
Retired Teachers Association news
6 November 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Have you recently retired from teaching or are you close to retiring? Retiring Federation members can maintain their interest in education by joining the Retired Teachers Association.