History Lesson: Teaching in the early days
2 March 2018
Section: News
The earliest teachers in what is now the state of NSW were Aboriginal men and
women. They taught life skills and tribal awareness via ceremony, dance, lore, oral
storytelling and art.
Letters
2 March 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Letters include: Spoiled by choice, Question of quality and Workers strike out .
Funding cut set to bite
2 March 2018
Section: News
This was to be the year of a significant school funding uplift, intended to bring hundreds of NSW public schools closer to the minimum Schooling Resource Standard (SRS).
Shoring up support for our Beginning Teachers
2 March 2018
Section: News
With the start of the new school year, Federation has received a number of inquiries about the use of beginning teacher support funds in schools.
Policy core threat to public schools
2 March 2018
Section: News
In the lead up to the March 2019 NSW election, Federation will continue to expose the Department’s Local Schools, Local Decisions policy as the single greatest threat to teacher permanency and high-quality, high-equity public schooling for all students.
Project Officers
2 March 2018
Section: News
Federation’s mantra that recruitment of members is everybody’s responsibility falls a little more heavily on the shoulders of the union’s Project Officers. Federation has been growing strongly over the past few years, reaching 60,000 members in 2017.
Policy gap widening
2 March 2018
Section: News
This year is the 10th since millions of Australians mourned, wept, celebrated and embraced loved ones on the day then-prime minister Kevin Rudd delivered the National Apology to the First Peoples and to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their family and community.
Tree Levy grants schools green space
2 March 2018
Section: News
The Tree Levy is an annual grants scheme funded by Federation that aims to offset the environmental impact of the union’s activities via a notional levy on the paper used by the union.
Expressions of Interest open for semester 2 Project Officers
2 March 2018
Section: Administration
As part of the continuing implementation of the Annual Conference Decision 2004 Recruitment and Activism and the Future of the Union, the General Secretary is seeking Expressions of Interest from school teachers in their first few years of teaching, who believe they can make a significant contribution to the role of Project Officer.
Retired Teachers Association news
1 March 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
This year marks the 100th birthday of Federation and will be an important time for everyone who supports public education and trade unionism.
Your workplace contacts
1 March 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Teaching in a small country community comes with its challenges but mainly rewards for Donna McLaughlan, Fed Rep at Canowindra Public School.
There’s nothing casual about teaching
1 March 2018
Section: News
Standards-based remuneration and pre-2004 teachers; Temporary engagement notices; Accreditation and maintenance
Expert to present NAPLAN report at public lecture
1 March 2018
Section: News
A world leader in assessment theory and practice, Dr Les Perelman, will outline his findings on NAPLAN at a public lecture on Friday, 4 May at 6pm.
Turnbull Government’s political ads rip $10m out of school funding
1 March 2018
Section: News
The Federal Education Department has been caught misleading Australian parents over funding of almost $10 million for an advertising campaign with money that should have gone to schools.
Association Spotlight: Canterbury Bankstown
1 March 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
We’re a very supportive and welcoming Association. We have a good cross section of representation from primary, secondary, IEC and SSP settings and members have said they consider our meetings productive, efficient and interesting.
Vale Colleen Hood
1 March 2018
Section: News
At Federation’s February Council meeting, General Secretary John Dixon remembered Colleen Hood as a tireless and courageous advocate in the struggle for justice and fairness. A long-time teacher, Federation Life Member and labour movement activist, she died after a short illness on 8 January, aged 75.
Richest schools get orchestra pits while Turnbull leaves public schools under-resourced
25 February 2018
Section: News
The Australian Education Union’s Federal Conference today condemned the inequitable funding policies of the Turnbull Government that will delivers billions…
Union history takes centre stage at council
23 February 2018
Section: News
Pieces of Federation’s history held prime position at the Council meeting held on Saturday, the first during the union’s centenary year.
Federation welcomes decoupling of NAPLAN from HSC
22 February 2018
Section: News
Federation welcomes the announcement by NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes that NAPLAN will be decoupled from the HSC.
Share your opinions about work and workload in schools
22 February 2018
Section: News
In response to the growing number of concerns raised by members about increasing and excessive workload, Federation has commissioned a research team of academics from the University of Sydney and Curtin University to investigate the nature and source of workload in schools.
Gary Zadkovich’s immeasurable contribution to teachers’ working lives acknowledged
21 February 2018
Section: News
Family, friends, education officials and former students gathered to celebrate the remarkable career of Gary Zadkovich at his retirement function at the University of Sydney.