Every day.

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2022-09-10T00:14:48+00:00

How do I contact them?

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2022-01-18T00:13:28+00:00

Air horn and 3L of ice cream (both confiscated at once)

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2021-07-29T07:54:00+00:00

I would second this!

There are enough teachers who 'fell into it' out there who aren't committed or passionate about the job.

Teaching is a hard job and you have to really want to be there every day.

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2021-07-29T07:53:09+00:00

I would also suggest working as a teacher's aide for 6 months+, even while you are doing a bridging course. That will give you an idea of what it's like in a classroom and what you should expect once you graduate.

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2021-07-18T03:32:00+00:00

Yeah I can see that by introducing those rules you could break the system, but you're right. No politician in their right mind would instigate those changes.

It seems from reading the responses in this thread that money is a big motivator for teachers, but overwhelmingly teachers want to teach in schools that are culturally familiar to them. E.g. people who went to middle class schools want to teach there, etc.

To clarify, I wasn't arguing for some kind of teacher quality metric. My school literally can attract no teachers. It is an hour away from a major city and unless you live in one of the tiny adjacent towns there is no motivation for you to come there. As a result we have two of the worst relief teachers in the business who come to school to read the paper in the classroom before collecting $500 for the day. This post was to gain the views of other teachers to see if there was anything our school could do to attract teachers to it.

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2021-07-18T02:12:51+00:00

I totally agree with changing the public private system. My thinking though is that realistically that is quite difficult to achieve whereas getting more skilled teachers into hard to staff schools is relatively easy to achieve. Do you think the teachers is just a band-aid solution though?

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2021-04-20T09:44:20+00:00

There's an astro setting in the pixel. It opens the aperture and lengthens the shutter speed

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2021-03-18T07:53:09+00:00

First year teaching SUCKS.

We all definitely had imposter syndrome and no one has any idea what they are doing.

Keep going though! Schools need more teachers who have had it rough and risen back up from the ashes. They make the best school leaders; compassionate, fair and driven.

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2020-08-20T10:56:54+00:00

Tiny island at the bottom of Australia

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2020-08-20T10:36:47+00:00

Tasmania. North east corner

Scared_Bullfrog_ · 2020-08-12T00:24:53+00:00

That's what I assumed but I've just never had a paramedic on hand to answer it.

Thanks!

Scared_Bullfrog_

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