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News for Tasmanian Teachers
Archive for August 2022
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TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
DEATH LITERACY
VISUAL ARTS
NLINE LEARNING
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
STUDENT SUPPORT
TEACHER SALARIES
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
CLIMATE CHANGE
TASMANIAN POLITICS
COVID-19
TEACHING PROFESSION
ENERGY POLICY
MOBILE PHONE POLICY
TEACHING PROFESSION
STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
INTEREST RATES
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The Jordan River Learning
Federation School Farm at Brighton has completed its $4.7
million redevelopment, education minister Roger Jaensch has
announced.
The co-founder of the
Tassie Death Cafe would like to see the Australian
Curriculum enabling students to become death literate.
Winning entries in this
year's Young Archies portrait competition, open to Education
Department students, are on display at the UTAS art school
until Saturday, 10 September 2022.
An
online exhibition is expected to be available on the
A new private school that
will operate only online will charge $18,000 per year, but
there are cheaper and free home learning alternatives to
choose from.
Although the left-to-right
horizontal number line is routinely used in teaching
mathematics, the brain appears to find it more natural to
count vertically from bottom to top, researchers suggest.
Good sleep habits should be
taught in school health promotion programs to help prevent
obesity, a researcher says.
The views of people aged 12
to 25 years are being sought in a survey for the Tasmanian
Suicide Prevention Strategy, minister for health and
wellbeing Jeremy Rockliff announced today.
Prime Minister Anthony
Albanese's wish for employees to receive wage rises can be
granted if he persuades the states to start with teachers,
nurses and others in the most-trusted but lowest paid
category, an economics commentator says.
Tasmanian VET completion
rates are the best in the country, skills and training
minister Felix Ellis says.
Newsagent Dean Young has been elected on a recount of
Franklin votes to fill the seat left vacant by Jacquie
Petrusma, defeating former Huon Valley mayor Bec Enders.
The number of new
Coronavirus cases recorded in Tasmania is a relatively low
375.
Australia's education
ministers will develop the National Teacher Workforce
Action Plan which will focus on increasing teacher
numbers, raising teacher status and increasing time spent
teaching.
Research shows that
banning student use of mobile phones does not prevent
bullying nor declines in student performance.
The NSW plan to provide its
overworked teachers with a repository of prepared lesson
plans does not address the root issue which is excessive
administrative work, four academics say.
Addressing five issues will
improve student discipline and reduce suspensions, several
academics say.
The Reserve Bank has raised
the cash rate for the fourth consecutive month, from 1.35 per cent to
1.85 per cent. This is the third 0.5 per cent rise in a row.