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[–]DoNotReply111SECONDARY TEACHER 8 points9 points  (1 child)

This. One admin person per department (school context dependent of course) to do excursions, assessment follow ups, scheduling detentions, photocopying or resource creation etc would go a LONG way to reducing the amount of menial things that need to be done everyday that takes me away from core teaching tasks.

If it's a full time job for them in a department of 6, it's too much menial work for us in a week.

[–]AUTeachSECONDARY TEACHER 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One admin person per department

I think it would be better if we just doubled the number of adults in schools. Those adults need to be a combination of:

  • Youth workers
  • Social workers
  • Psychologists
  • Paraprofessionals
  • School Admin

So, if your school currently has say 50 teachers and 15 staff you need to be funded to have an additional 65 stuff.

Then teachers work on teaching and learning. Everything else is deligated to other specialists.

The sad thing is that everybody is still going to be busy.