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  Crucial collaboration pushed to weekends

  October 28, 2020

  There’s a lot of activity on Teacher Google Classrooms on the weekends and after work hours, because there’s just no time in the school day to collaborate with colleagues on data, the first teacher witness before the work value inquiry said.

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  Funding needed to address inequality

  October 28, 2020

  ​A new study has provided further evidence of the deep inequality entrenched across Australia’s education system.

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  Profession’s increasingly complex work deserves extra time allocation

  October 28, 2020

  Overloading teachers with “administrivia” was a disaffecting aspect of the present workplace and not core to the occupation, the Gallop inquiry into valuing the teaching profession has been told.

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  High levels of responsibility and accountability not matched with support

  October 27, 2020

  Schools have buckets of money instead of teachers to meet needs under the Local Schools, Local Decisions model, Federation Senior Vice President Amber Flohm told the work value inquiry on 26 October.

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  Hopes staffing research will advance campaign for more permanent teachers

  October 27, 2020

  ​Federation has commissioned an independent research project into the staffing of the NSW public school system, as a means to achieve improved staffing arrangements for the benefit of teaching and learning.

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  Teachers cast adrift by education system, inquiry hears

  October 27, 2020

  Week three of the “Valuing the teaching profession — an independent inquiry” hearings resumed on Monday with student learning need and the negative effects of devolutionary policies coming under the spotlight.

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  Valuing the Teaching Profession – An Independent Inquiry

  October 26, 2020

  The Independent Inquiry has heard from the experts. Now it’s time for teachers and principals to have their say at the second round of hearings which begin in Sydney on Monday 26 October 2020.

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  Broadcast reveals inquiry is tuned in to profession’s priority issues

  October 23, 2020

  There’s been too little concern for what the avalanche of policy and program changes means for teachers, “Valuing the teaching profession — an independent inquiry” head Geoff Gallop said today (23 October).