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News for Tasmanian Teachers
Archive for November 2021
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JUSTICE SYSTEM
COVID-19
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
COVID-19
TEACHER
PERFORMANCE
MILITARY HISTORY
SCHOOL TERM DATES
STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT
AUSTRALIAN
CURRIUCLUM
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT
SPORT
CHILD SEXUAL
ABUSE
TAFE
COVID AND
CLASSROOMS
YEAR 11 AND 12
ASSESSMENTS
NUMERACY
DRIVER EDUCATION
CRIME
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Sue Neill-Fraser has lost
her second appeal over the conviction for murdering her
partner. but with one of the three justices saying he would
have ordered a retrial
Two travellers arriving in
Sydney have the Omicron COVID-19 strain from southern
Africa, prompting uncertainty over various plans to open up
borders this year.
Community consultation is
being invited over plans for the redevelopment of Burnie's
Montello Primary School.
The views of many teachers
and students on the usefulness of surveys of students on
their teachers' performance are not exactly positive, three
academics say.
The 12 student winners
of the Frank MacDonald Memorial Prize for 2022 have been
announced by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Guy
Barnett.
A delay to the start of Term
1 next year may be necessary to allow primary school
students to get vaccinated before the return to school,
premier Peter Gutwein said this morning.
Aussie students' PISA
results are slipping because our students are are not bothering to
try hard in a test that does not count towards their
assessment, it seems.
Although the Australian
Curriculum is controversial and States develop their own
curricula, we still need a national curriculum as it helps
us map our students' future learning, an academic says.
Comments are invited on the
new Legana Primary School site plan which has just been
released.
A discussion paper released
today by sport and recreation minister Jane Howlett aims to
find ways to increase participation in sport and active
recreation in Tasmania.
Tim Gardner will commence
this month as new Chair of the TasTAFE Board, the Minister
for Skills, Training and Workforce Growth, Sarah Courtney,
has announced.
Year 11 and 12 assessments
commence tomorrow (Mon. 8 Nov.), with results being
available from Wednesday 15 December, education minister
Sarah Courtney says.
A five-point action plan
will boost the numeracy skills of Tasmanian students,
education minister Sarah Courtney says.
Fundamental to educating
young people to drive is a focus on risky behaviour, an
academic writes.
Missing WA 4-year-old Cleo
Smith has been found alive and well after police broke into
a house early this morning.