TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Innovative
Learning Centre at Ogilvie High School opened
Tas Govt media release, 30 November
2010
The Premier, David Bartlett,
today officially opened a new $4.94-million Student Centre at Ogilvie
High School in Hobart’s northern suburbs...
TEACHER SALARIES
National
youth sector resource goes online
Tas Govt media release, 30 November
2010
The Minister for Community
Development, Nick McKim, today congratulated the Hobart-based Australian
Clearinghouse for Youth Studies (ACYS) on the launch of their new
website – Australia’s first comprehensive youth sector resource...
TEACHER SALARIES
Pay rise due
in February
Tas Govt media release, 30 November
2010
The State’s 5000 government
school teachers are set to receive a pay rise of nearly 4.5 per cent
when they return from their Christmas break...
SCHOOL TERMS
Teachers baulk at four terms
The Mercury, 30 November
2010
THREE-quarters of education union
members who voted in a survey appear opposed to moves to change to four
terms in Tasmanian schools...
BROADBAND
School's NBN problems fixed after principal speaks out
ABC News, 30 November
2010
The first Tasmanian school hooked
up to the National Broadband Network says problems with its connection
have been fixed...
BULLYING IN TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Tackling bullying (VIDEO)
ABC Stateline Tasmania, 26 November
2010
Schools are struggling to cope
with the changing face of bullying...
POST YEAR 10 EDUCATION
Education regrets (VIDEO)
ABC Stateline Tasmania, 26 November
2010
Some are mourning the demise of
the Tasmania Tomorrow education changes...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Port Sorell
school project takes off
Tas Govt media release, 29 November
2010
Work is progressing on the new
Port Sorell School project, with a steering committee set to meet before
Christmas to select an architect for the project...
SCHOOL TERMS
State teachers reject four term year proposal
ABC News, 29 November
2010
Tasmanian teachers have voted
overwhelmingly against a switch to a four-term school year...
DIGITAL INFORMATION
eBooks go
online at Tasmania’s LINCs
Tas Govt media release, 29 November
2010
Tasmania’s Learning and
Information Network Centres (LINCs) have taken another step into the
digital age, with the introduction of a new eBooks service...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
More mobile students need a national curriculum
Peter Garrett in The Australian, 29 November
2010
From time to time we recognise
that we must live as a nation rather than as a cluster of states...
EDUCATION FUNDING
Disclose or lose funds, say senators
SMH, 29 November
2010
Labor senators have argued that
private schools should be stripped of their public funding if they
refuse to fully disclose their financial resources...
ABORIGINAL EDUCATION
Tas remote
area Aboriginal student scholarship open
Tas Govt media release, 27 November
2010
Applications are now open for the
2011 Alma Lily Stackhouse Scholarship, Minister for Education and
Skills, Lin Thorp, said today...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Student
film-makers show their work
Tas Govt media release, 26 November
2010
The talents of Tasmania’s budding
young film makers were showcased at the MyState Financial Student Film
festival awards in Hobart today...
MY SCHOOL WEBSITE
Private schools' fury over My School website
The Australian, 26 November
2010
PRIVATE schools are threatening
court action to prevent the publication of information about their
finances on the My School website...
BROADBAND
First school superfast broadband 'not reliable'
ABC News, 25 November
2010
Concerns about the reliability of
the National Broadband Network have been raised by the first school to
be connected...
TEST YOUR OWN BROADBAND SPEED:
SpeedTest.net
(Wait for, then click on, 'Begin Test'.)
Other sites:
ZDNet
PCWorld
(1000kbps = 1 megabit per sec, eg 4500kbps = 4.5 megabits
per sec)
BROADBAND
Students get
high-speed broadband
Tas Govt media release, 25 November
2010
The Premier, David Bartlett,
today inspected the newest cutting-edge learning opportunities for
Tasmanian students, made possible by the State’s leading role in the
roll-out of high-speed broadband...
SPORTING ACTIVITIES
Schools
triathlon challenge under way
Tas Govt media release, 25 November
2010
More than 2500 students from
government, independent and catholic schools are competing in the
Schools Triathlon Challenge this week...
MY SCHOOL WEBSITE
Index reveals link between poverty and
performance
SMH, 23 November
2010
THE relationship between student
performance and social disadvantage is more closely linked than thought
in Australia, the federal government's My School website has revealed...
SCHOOL APPOINTMENTS
Children 'must be given a say in the running of schools'
Telegraph (UK), 22 November
2010
When we make teaching
appointments at BGS, students have their own panel (albeit with a member
of staff sitting in), devise their own questions and a nominated chair
feeds back to the appointment panel at a debrief at the end of the day...
MY SCHOOL WEBSITE
Real problem with schools is the gap between rich and poor
SMH, 22 November
2010
The system of national testing
and publication of school league tables has been discredited in the US
and Britain by educational research. But testing is a powerful political
weapon. It reinforces the choice of the middle class to flee the public
system while shifting the blame for the fall in public education
standards from the government - where it belongs - to government school
teachers and principals...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Ogilvie students win sustainable future
awards
Tas Govt media release, 20 November
2010
Students at Ogilvie High School
are environmental winners for their contribution in creating a more
sustainable future for their school and community...
ALCOHOL AT SCHOOL
School staff rooms drink to happy hour
NEWS.COM.AU, 21 November
2010
TEACHERS are getting stuck into
cheap booze while celebrating Friday night "happy hour" in school staff
rooms...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
eSchool
tenders called
Tas Govt media release, 20 November
2010
Tenders have been called for the
refurbishment of facilities to accommodate the Tasmanian eSchool’s
southern campus...
TEACHER ACCOMMODATION
NW teacher
housing comments sought
Tas Govt media release, 20 November
2010
The State Government is seeking
comment from people who have lived in teacher accommodation in the
North-West as part of its review of accommodation in the region...
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
School bans children from putting their hands up
The Telegraph (UK), 17 November
2010
A school is to ban pupils from
putting up their hands when they know an answer in class – because it
"alienates" less intelligent children...
MY SCHOOL WEBSITE
Jail threat to media
The Mercury, 18 November
2010
ANYONE using data from the
controversial My School website to develop league tables could be jailed
or fined under new rules unveiled yesterday...
STUDENT HEALTH
Growing pains spelt out
The Mercury, 18 November
2010
YOUNG Tasmanians are struggling
with stress and problems at school more than their interstate peers and
are less concerned about the environment...
STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
Primary school bans kids hugging
Herald Sun, 17 November
2010
STUDENTS at a Gold Coast primary
school are being warned against hugging...
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
No charges for sticky tape teacher - but Crime and Corruption Commission
notified
WA Today, 15 November
2010
Goldfields (WA) police will not
charge a teacher from a Kalgoorlie primary school who was stood down
after claims she stuck tape over the mouths of children as punishment...
TAS STUDENT NUMBERS
Enrolments rise
Tas Govt media release, 16 November
2010
The Minister for Education and
Skills, Lin Thorp, has welcomed an increase in the number of full time
equivalent students enrolled in Tasmania’s government schools and
colleges between March and August this year...
SWIMMING LESSONS
Swimmers left to go with flow
The Mercury, 16 November
2010
TOO many children are leaving
primary school without being able to swim, says the Royal Life Saving
Society Australia...
MY SCHOOL WEBSITE
School funds revealed on My School
Daily Telegraph, 15 November
2010
PARENTS can compare how much is
spent on each child in every school as part of a dramatic revamp of the
controversial My School website...
CLASS SIZES
Cutting class size won't improve schooling: study
ABC The World Today, 15 November
2010
One of Australia's biggest
teacher groups has rejected a Grattan Institute study which shows that
reducing class sizes does not necessarily improve schooling...
BIG PICTURE SCHOOLS
Setting young minds free
SMH, 15 November
2010
Chris Bonnor [Big Picture
Education Australia board member] typically takes the latest fads in
schooling with a pinch of salt but one project to help disadvantaged
children has made him a convert...
BIG PICTURE SCHOOLS
Embracing a big-picture view
SMH, 15 November
2010
The philosophy of Big Picture
learning is simple: focus on small groups of children who need help and
tailor curriculums around individual students' interests to engage them
in learning...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
History shows there's no pleasing everyone with a national curriculum
The Australian, 13 November
2010
The new teaching program should
be introduced next year and then modified as necessary...
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Teacher stood down following sticky tape allegations
Perth Now, 13 November
2010
A WA teacher has been stood down
following claims the mouths of several primary school students were
sticky taped shut...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Claytons
national curriculum
(National curriculum but not national consistency)
SMH, 12 November
2010
Is the Gillard government
delivering a real national curriculum?
Parents hoping it would provide a seamless transition between schools
for children who move from state to state will be disappointed by what
is emerging...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
New York schools have failed the test
SMH, 12 November
2010
Australia's approach to testing
students and holding schools and teachers accountable has been copied
from New York. The head of schools there, Joel Klein, has just announced
his resignation, and an evaluation of the success or otherwise of the
New York experience suggests we may be copying his mistakes....
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Six students
win trip to WW1 landmarks
Tas Govt media release, 11 November
2010
Six Tasmanian students have won
the trip of a lifetime to the World War I battlefields of Turkey,
Belgium and France as part of the annual Frank MacDonald Memorial Prize...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Tas. schools
join national sustainability program
Tas Govt media release, 10 November
2010
A growing number of Tasmanian
schools are joining an innovative national program to encourage children
to get involved in their local communities...
Anti-virus phone scam warning
9 November 2010
Tasmanians are still being phoned by people claiming to be from
Microsoft who obtain their credit card details on the premise of ridding
them of a virus (which they don't really have). See related
warning from
Minister for Consumer Protection issued on 4 November.
TEACHER SALARIES
Doubt cast on teacher bonus
The Age, 8 November
2010
AUSTRALIA needs a more
professional approach to evaluating and rewarding teachers than the
promise of bonuses for just 10 per cent of staff in any year, according
to a leading United States researcher on teacher performance...
TASMANIAN PRINCIPALS
Five
Tasmanian principals receive awards
Tas Govt media release, 5 November
2010
Five Tasmanian principals will be
honoured tonight for their exceptional leadership and contribution to
professional learning:
- David Raw
- Leanne Raw
- Bob Phillips
- Anne Foale
- Sandra Harvey
...
YEARS 11 AND 12
TCE students
gear up for exams
Tas Govt media release, 4 November
2010
More than 7000 Year 11 and 12
students are gearing up for Tasmanian Certificate of Education exams
later this month...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Teachers face $100 fine
The Mercury, 4 November
2010
TASMANIAN college teachers are
being charged up to $100 if they fail to turn up for booked classrooms...
SCHOOL TERMS
Think tank on school terms
The Mercury, 2 November
2010
A DISCUSSION paper listing the
pros and cons of a four-term Tasmanian school year should be released
next week...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Delays hit new schools
The Mercury, 2 November
2010
ABOUT 800 children are in limbo
because two new multi-million-dollar primary schools in Hobart's
northern suburbs may not be ready in time for classes next year...
NAPLAN TESTING
Expert calls for NAPLAN axing
SMH, 1 November
2010
One of Australia's most respected
educationalists has called for the axing of national literacy tests and
the My School website...
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