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News for Tasmanian Teachers
Archive for June 2022
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STUDENT HEALTH AND WELLBEING
TEACHING PROFESSION
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
EARLY CHILDHOOD
LITERACY
WEATHER ALERT
DIGITAL LITERACY
INTEREST RATES
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
TASMANIAN BUDGET
COOPERATIVE EDUCATION
TASMANIAN POLITICS
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
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Various curriculum and
other student-focused requirements specify attention to
'wellbeing', but without defining exactly what wellbeing
is. (And they don't even agree on whether or not the term is
hyphenated.)
Paying individual teachers
extra for good teaching might seem logical on the surface,
but such differential treatment of teachers with its
accompanying unavoidable unfairness in making comparisons
undermines the collegiality and morale that a good school
depends on, three academics say. 
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The new primary school at
Legana should be ready for use in 2025 despite current
building supplies and tradies shortages, education minister
Roger Jaensch says.
Students who grow up in
unsupportive disadvantaged neighbourhoods can develop brain
changes that make them over-react to other people's angry
facial expressions, a researcher says.
The sticker-book based
Passport to Learning program will encourage early learners
to participate in fun learning activities, education
minister Roger Jaensch says.
Not enough schools have a
whole-of-school literacy policy despite the Australian
Curriculum listing literacy as a general capability, the
author of a forthcoming book on the matter says.
The Reserve Bank has raised
the cash rate from 0.35 per cent to 0.85 per cent, a rise of
0.5 per cent which is higher than most economists had
predicted.
Federal
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has announced the Liberal
Shadow Ministry.
Former education minister Alan Tudge
is the Opposition's education spokesperson.
The State Budget's Safeguarding Children
initiatives are based on redirected funding rather than new
funding, AEU Tasmanian president David Genford says.
Schools and universities
need to teach cooperation and the skills to run
organisations and communities democratically, an academic
says.
The new
Albanese ministry was sworn in this morning.