Teachers to stop work after the bell, interrupting new curriculum

Teachers successful Queensland could garbage to enactment extracurricular schoolhouse hours this week successful an concern run flared by a long-running teacher shortage and a rash of resignations.

Work bans successful Queensland schools would halt teachers moving extracurricular schoolhouse hours and interrupt the instauration of the caller nationalist curriculum.Credit: Joe Armao

Queensland has astir 55,000 teachers and 19,000 teachers aides.

Queensland Teachers’ Union vice president Leah Olsson said the enactment bans would halt teachers moving extracurricular rostered schoolhouse hours.

“The mentation enactment that is done extracurricular of schoolhouse hours, the Department of Education roadshows, sports and clubs – immoderate information extracurricular rostered schoolhouse hours – if the ballot authorises the bans, that is the benignant of things teachers won’t do,” Olsson said.

“And nary attraction astatine determination and cardinal bureau meetings arsenic well.”

On Monday night, Olsson would not item the result of the vote, different that to accidental “the overwhelming bulk of members are successful enactment of enactment bans”.

A teacher told Brisbane Times the QTU was asking for the bans due to the fact that teachers were asked to bash excessively overmuch enactment extracurricular schoolhouse hours.

“Meetings similar unit meetings and module meetings are being banned for a week from May 1 to May 9 successful the proposal,” the teacher said.

“But also, connected the longer term, determination is simply a enactment prohibition implicit the implementation of the caller program and readying for the ninth Australian Curriculum.”

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“The section has not provided immoderate clip for america to program the caller curriculum. We person to alteration each our enactment programs, but determination is nary backing to merchandise unit to bash it successful rostered work time.

“So we are putting a prohibition connected that for the remainder of word 2.”

Term 2 runs until Friday, June 21.

Education Queensland had 1 of Australia’s highest teacher retention rates, astatine 95 per cent, according to the Australian Teaching Workforce Data reports.

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But Olsson said teacher shortages were wide successful cardinal and bluish Queensland, and astir noticeable successful Ipswich, Logan, Biloela and Sarina.

“Anecdotally, what we are seeing is antithetic regions astir the authorities that are truly difficult; it is antithetic pockets astir the state.”

Opposition acquisition spokesperson Dr Christian Rowan said Education Queensland had lone employed 8 per cent of the 6190 other teacher and 1130 other teachers aides Labor identified astatine the 2020 authorities election.

“[The authorities has] failed to make and instrumentality a broad teacher and teacher adjutant workforce plan, which means that our hardworking teaching unit person been experiencing higher workforce loads,” Rowan said.

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“It is small wonderment past wherefore we are slipping towards targeted concern action, with the QTU’s information of workforce bans.”

The QTU besides supports large reductions to HECS indebtedness for teachers arsenic a realistic fiscal inducement to promote teachers.

“In immoderate of those determination places, could reducing oregon ruling retired the HECS debt, could that help?” Olsson said.

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