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Grattan’s new report proposes strategies to stem teacher shortage crisis
The latest Grattan Institute Report, Attracting high achievers to teaching, is proposing a $1.6 billion reform package to “double the number of high achievers who choose to become teachers, and increase the average ATAR of teaching graduates to 85, within the next decade”.
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About time, but I bet it does not happen. I have done many jobs in my 53 years of work experience, in the last 25 years I have been teaching in the Physical science area, this consists of basic mathematics, Chemistry and Physics. I have found teaching to be the most challenging and difficult.
I don’t do it for money in this Country it does not have the status it once used to have. These proposals would certainly help lift the the status and standards. ATARS are not everything but encouraging high achievers to stay with the profession is a very worthwhile goal.