News for Tasmanian Teachers
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TASMANIAN POLITICS
TASMANIAN POLITICS
WORLD SECURITY
SPORT
WORLD SECURITY
PALINDROMES
And if you type 22/2/22 into your Google search box, your screen will be showered with confetti.
PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIPS All Australian schools will be required to teach consent education from 2023.
PUBLIC VS PRIVATE
SCHOOLS Study of NAPLAN data with the effect of socioeconomic status removed shows that a student receives no added academic benefit in choosing a non-government school, two researchers say.
COVID CHECK-INS Use of the Check In Tas app will no longer be required at schools, shops, cafes, hospitals and aged care facilities from 6.00pm tonight.
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM The delay in approving the revised Australian Curriculum means the revised History curriculum is at risk of becoming an issue in the forthcoming federal election, an academic says.
COVID AND SCHOOLS Students carrying COVID-19 have been identified in half of Tasmania's government schools, premier Peter Gutwein said today.
TASMANIAN POLITICS The modified Tasmanian ministerial lineup announced today includes Roger Jaensch as the new Minister for Education, Children and Youth.
EARLY LEARNING Tasmania's twelve Child and Family Learning Centres will receive an average of three more days of Centre Assistant staffing, acting education minister Jeremy Rockliff has announced.
EQUALITY OF
OPPORTUNITY Measures such as sharing best practice successes would help to raise Australia's education system from the bottom one-third of OECD rankings in equality, two researchers say.
COVID AND SCHOOLS
With COVID outbreaks occurring
in seven schools, it is clear the return of students to the
classroom should have been more cautious, Greens leader Cassy
O'Connor says.
SEX EDUCATION Sex education lessons are more effective if they specifically incorporate the pleasure component, an exhaustive study by the University of Oxford says.
CORONAVIRUS AND
SCHOOLS COVID outbreaks have occurred in three Tasmanian non-government schools, one of which has been named as the Hilliard Christian School.
TASMANIAN POLITICS Education minister Sarah Courtney has announced she is leaving politics. Premier's statement, 10 Feb 2022
STUDENT SUPPORT
COVID AND SCHOOLS The government needs to say whether relief teachers will receive COVID sick leave, and answer many more school COVID questions, Opposition education spokesperson Josh Willie says. Yes, relief teachers will get COVID sick leave, Jeremy Rockliff, Acting education minister, 7 Feb 2022
TEACHING PROFESSION
LITERACY Community-wide consultation over literacy in Tasmania is being sought, premier Peter Gutwein has announced.
Literacy
consultation details (DPAC website)
LITERACY AND NUMERACY
A substantial proportion of
students fail to improve in literacy and numeracy as they
progress through school in Tasmania, researcher Lisa Denny says.
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