“Very helpful. Thanks very much!”
“This is great! I would love a similar spreadsheet for personalised plans. Thanks for all your work.”
“I am no longer in a position where this affects me due to being semi-retired, but this is fabulous for today’s teachers. Thank you and all who have worked towards this. It has been a long time coming. The different interpretations of what is required and then the idea of best practice! Can easily be clarified. Thanks again and keep up the good work.”
“Great stuff, thank you.”
“I really appreciate this. Many of our teachers are overloaded with work. We are questioning many tasks we are being asked to do. This is helpful. I will show this information to as many staff members as I can and try to increase the number of union members at our school.”
“As a long-term casual teacher, I have been dismayed by the lack of paid PD offered by any schools to desperately needed casual staff.
“Accumulating the 100 hrs of PD in five years for full-time teachers is relatively easy as most schools factor this in as part of a teacher’s yearly ‘salary package’, and schools help accumulate the hours during weekly staff meetings and pupil-free training days.”
“A casual teacher’s only recourse is to spend unpaid time completing online courses. I am seriously considering finalising a 35+ year teaching career in Maths, Science, Physics and Biology at the end of 2024 and spending my years before retirement as a truck/machinery operator.
“A number of my fellow casual colleagues are in a similar position and will wave goodbye to the profession when this arbitrary seven-year date clicks over at the end of 2024.”
“ I wonder how this situation will unfold when one week I’m perfectly qualified to teach and the next week I’ve had my accreditation revoked. How will this be viewed by the general public when dozens, perhaps hundreds, of casual teachers are prevented from saving NSW schools from being unable to run classes due to the arbitrary end of the 2024 deadline.
“I reiterate, casual teacher numbers will ‘fall off a cliff’ due to this action at a time when there are ongoing declines in teacher numbers and no prospects of any government initiatives which will stem, let alone remediate this situation.”
“How will people view the de-registering of Proficient Teachers at the end of 2024? I read with interest that the government ran an initiative to attract new teachers which cost $24 million and attracted 17 new participants! This, as well as the foregoing observations, speaks to me of NESA’s total lack of understanding of how to attract or more importantly retain teachers in the NSW teaching profession.”
In the previous edition of Newsmonth we ran a pull-out poster advising teachers on avoiding unnecessary NESA compliance. It has been repeated in this month's edition.