- and the teacher was investigated.
Sit down and behave, sir - teachers hamstrung by class rules, Bruce McDougall, The Daily Telegraph, 12 November, 2011: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/sit-down-and-behave-sir-teachers-hamstrung-by-class-rules/story-e6freuzi-1226193163132 Historical link preserved from the original page.
New South Wales: Is it difficult for teachers working way out west to do 100 hours of professional development every five years?
All teachers do is attract scorn for a pretty average wage.
The NSWIT bleeds you dry every year for the privilege of justifying your existence as a teacher.
If you fail to do 100 hours of professional development courses every 5 years, you lose your accreditation.
Even if you live way out west where there is little opportunity available, no exceptions.
You can drive 450km to Sydney, do 4 hours of professional development, and drive 450km back.
Do the math on that commitment. A good chunk of that is at your own expense.
Your degree means nothing as everyone is an expert.
The worst of your profession leave the classroom for leadership positions and academia. Those are the ones the bureaucrats listen to, not the career classroom teacher whose classes the students adore and who stay in the classroom because they enjoy doing something they are good at.
You have to justify every lesson you do to a bureaucrat every 5 years in the form of registration programs.
You have to write a risk assessment novel every time you want to go on an excursion.
When all this is considered, you can then get on with teaching, nurturing, counselling, report writing, marking, sport coaching and school camps.