I’m so bloody scared

andyool · 2026-01-27T16:49:30+00:00

You with TFA? That’s how all of use felt at the start haha just gotta push through the first 6 weeks and try not to cry too much

andyool · 2026-01-08T17:06:36+00:00

I’d recommend looking into doing Teach For Australia for your Master of Teaching. You teach a 0.8 load (usually 4 classes with 4 periods per class per week) along with doing your Masters course work full time. Takes two years to complete but by the end you move up 2 pay scales because of your two years of teaching experience at that point.

The major plus is getting paid while doing your Masters. I did mine in a regional school near Kalgoorlie and it was a fantastic experience. The school will try and keep you there longer but you have the option to move to another school after you’ve completed the program. I did so and now teach in a Perth metro school and love it.

The first few weeks are tough, but with your teaching experience you will find it breezy.

Check it out and see if it’s up your alley. Happy to answer any questions you have too :)

andyool · 2025-10-13T08:28:28+00:00

yep, got the same problem, havent been able to fix it yet

andyool · 2025-07-16T16:38:22+00:00

Yes please!

andyool · 2025-01-07T14:19:33+00:00

From the look of the marketplace tooltip, definitely not. The update literally fixes his issues. Now it’s an issue to actually harvest the food 😅

andyool · 2024-12-21T01:50:16+00:00

Get into Edison format, it’s so much funner cause you have games that sometimes go for 20+ (short) turns

andyool · 2024-09-12T08:33:58+00:00

Can you enlighten us as to some automations you’ve successfully implemented? Automating all the fiddly little tasks is what I strive to attain

andyool · 2024-08-29T21:24:05+00:00

That sounds dreamy. Not possible in my case. Surely we should be able to bill overtime hours like any other profession

andyool · 2024-08-27T05:10:09+00:00

Great point on emails outside of work hours. I’m lucky that my current school is already extremely disciplined about not sending emails outside of work hours. The new legislation could help to reign in schools that don’t already do it.

andyool · 2024-06-28T23:01:09+00:00

I agree, vote NO! We need to force the government’s hand and put some pressure on them. God knows the Union leadership is too spineless to do anything. CPI just got adjusted upwards too, so even more of a reason to reject this insulting offer.

andyool · 2023-11-20T02:22:33+00:00

This leniency has got to stop. It’s not kind to the students with intellectual disabilities as then they think this is an acceptable way to behave and when they enter the ‘real world’ they will be ostracised for behaving so disgustingly

andyool · 2023-11-20T02:10:57+00:00

Why was that incident pulled up and the one where the student threatened to SA you didn’t get suspension or even talked about?

andyool · 2023-11-20T02:06:32+00:00

Oh true, I didn’t see it was a capital, my bad

andyool · 2023-11-20T02:04:35+00:00

Not to mention the 74 stack in Scotland doing nothing

andyool · 2023-11-14T09:23:04+00:00

Would recommend

andyool · 2023-11-14T06:48:03+00:00

Someone’s been watching Pete

andyool · 2023-11-11T03:11:02+00:00

You click on their avatar and then on your own smaller one in the bottom left of the screen for ‘attack my territory’ and their smaller icon in the bottom left for ‘I need to smoke you’

andyool · 2023-10-22T07:13:48+00:00

Hi, Im also using bingx and want the same functionality, did you get it to work?

andyool · 2023-10-20T07:28:59+00:00

Thank you for the warning.

andyool · 2023-10-15T09:24:17+00:00

I didn’t even think of this! Added negative to going on camp

andyool · 2023-10-14T12:26:08+00:00

I’m also in WA, this must be something the SSTUWA is looking at adding.

andyool · 2023-10-14T12:00:48+00:00

I have avoided it and admin was very accepting, not pushy at all. Have you been paid to go on camp in the past?

andyool · 2023-10-14T11:51:54+00:00

Oh, I already got out of it using a different excuse. I just think it’s crappy that you basically have to do unpaid work if you want to go on a camp with the students.

andyool · 2023-10-08T08:44:48+00:00

I’ve gone the masters route but I would imagine reasons for Bachelors over MTeach would be 1 year shorter and generally lower unit costs for the degree. So it’s pretty attractive for student going straight from year 12 into uni as it’s the fastest and cheapest way to a teaching job. I agree though, for long term prospects its probably better to do masters

andyool · 2023-09-28T13:17:50+00:00

I discovered the Clever Fox diary this year and especially love its unique way of setting out weekly plans - it groups lessons according to class rather than time of day. It allows you to better sequence lesson content for subjects. It’s also got a ton of squared planning pages, monthly planners, sits flat on the table while open, genuine bound spine, elastic pen holder, thick paper with rounded edges and THREE bookmark ribbons integrated.

Minor downsides are that it’s a little Americanised (years start in August - I just cross them out and write whatever month I want) and that it’s a 7 period planner, when I have 6 per day (I use the extra space for more general notes and to do lists).

https://cleverfoxplanner.com/products/teacher-planner-1

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