September InBrief: Professional learning snippets from around the country

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published September 4, 2014

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Indigenous site launch

SYDNEY – The University of Sydney has launched a website explaining the structures and interrelationships between Australia’s ...

This story appeared in the September 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

Computer Systems Administrator - Kingston State College

Department of Education and Training (Queensland) Logan

We are seeking an experienced and solutions-focused Computer Systems Administrator to lead and manage our school’s ICT operations and team. This is an exciting o...

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Head of Special Education Services (HO1) - Eimeo Road SS - Special Education Program

Department of Education and Training (Queensland) Mackay

Lead Inclusion. Build Capability. Transform Outcomes. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of inclusive education at Eimeo Road State School. We a...

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Project Officer, Youth Transitions - North Coast Region

Department of Education and Training (Queensland)

Make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people as a Project Officer, Youth Transitions with the North Coast Region. Support initiatives that help young ...

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School news / Senate inquiry hears grieving parents describe tech platforms as ‘social heroin’

A father has begged the Federal Government to help teenagers so more parents don’t find themselves having to decide what flowers to put on their child’s coffin.

School news / Education union members demand full transparency on school funding: ICAC inquiry

The union representing teachers and support staff in non-government schools in NSW and the ACT says it is deeply concerned by revelations that public funding for Catholic schools may have been wrongfully spent on Liberal party matters including br...

School news / Seeking redemption: control tactics, abuse ‘rife’ at church private school

Victims and whistleblowers have aired distressing claims of control, abuse and forced labour against an academically acclaimed private school.

School news / Thousands rallying to condemn ‘racist’ One Nation policies a wonderful learning opportunity

Thursday’s national Students Say No to Pauline Hanson protests across major cities and towns might be evoking consternation and delight in equal measure in high schools and universities, but regardless, it also provides a great teaching and learni...

School news / Behaviour expert’s CORE approach said to overhaul disruptive classrooms in five weeks

Tears of grief and relief from teachers have often met behaviour expert Dr Tim McDonald, who says his powerful framework for creating calm and orderly classrooms that are conducive to learning starts to turn around disruptive school environments i...

School news / ‘Clearly exploitative’: control tactics, abuse ‘rife’ at church private school

Former students and church members have detailed disturbing claims of financial, psychological and social control at a religious private school.

School news / Inquiry learns violent, gory online content works as a youth extremist pathway

Misanthropic, violent and gory materials are helping shape a complex form of nihilistic youth extremism being examined at a royal commission.

School news / Are you playing your part in preserving teacher librarians and school libraries?

At a time when Australia’s core educational priorities are focussed on equity and system reform, it’s hard to fathom that the obvious and known benefits of school libraries and teacher librarians are being overlooked by government and school leaders.

School news / Assess their thinking: AI changes what counts as evidence of learning, leading teacher says

How can we decide what counts as evidence of student learning in the AI age when knowledge can be instantly produced, anywhere, anytime?

School news / Deal sweetener: signing bonus dangled in front of teachers as third strike looms

Public school teachers in Victoria are in line for a one-off bonus under the State Government’s latest pay and conditions offer designed to head off a third statewide strike.

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