Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 98 No. 05 (1 Aug 2017)
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Contents

EDUCATION Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1
Community key to funding campaign 1
NAPLAN's failure prompts push to replace testing 1
EDUCATION 2
contents 2
Teachers Federation House 2
Organisers 2
Articles, letters and photos 2
Annual Conference 2017 Teachers qualify for affordable housing, problem is little built 3
Lessons suffer under bureaucratic workload 3
Growing emergency of 'educational triage' 3
One TAFE restructure 3
Auditor finds tech inequity in schools 4
Conference's agenda to re-imagine TAFE 4
Annual Conference 2017 Student need sacrificed over tax policy and obsession with data 4
Creating the thinking classroom 4
Annual Conference 2017 Commercial creep in the classroom 5
Advertising 5
Literacy writes many a wrong 6
Advanced Fed Rep training refreshes skills and knowledge 6
Don't sign NAPLAN document 6
Turnbull fails leadership test 7
Managers secure pay rise in new agreement 7
Advertising 7
Dedicated advocates honoured for life 8
Sensory needs for learning helped by Tree Levy Grant 8
Federation locked in to fight for teachers in NSW prisons 8
Annual Conference 2017 Inquiry into job shifting by Department 8
Annual Conference 2017 TAFE campaign to go full Gonski 9
Annual Conference 2017 Raise the bar and they will reach for it 9
Allowance calculator new feature on app 9
YOUR WORKPLACE CONTACT PAUL WHITEHALL STGEORE TAFE 10
ASSOCIATION COFFS HARBOUR TA 10
Science of new syllabuses 11
Compare and contrast support for LGBTIQ+ 11
PAPER 11
Map for school diversity 12
USEFUL 12
Bexley building community 12
Policy puts down racism in schools 12
IN THE LIBRARY NEW RESOURCES FOR LOAN 13
HOW TO BORROW 13
Looking to the future 13
Advertising 13 , 14
Annual Conference 2017 New delegates join policy forum 15
Vale George O’Bray 16
THERE’S TEACHING 16
Advertising 16
WHAT’S 17
Vale Jack Allen 17
Advertising 17
PRESIDENT WROTES ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL 18
Advertising 18
your say 19
Knowledge verus information 19
Letters Selective thinking 19
Best to go public 19
Perpetuating myth 19 , 20
Class half full 20
Remembering Cris 20
Funding a bit rich 20
Inside 19
teaches librarians 20
Advertising 20
reviews 21
Film 21 , 22
Inside 21
BOOK 22
Advertising 22
Theatre 23
Corkscrew 24
Advertising 24
administration 25
Notice from the Australian Electoral Commission Presidential Officers election 25
EOls open for 2018 Project Officer spots 25
A WORD FROM OUR NEW INTAKE 25
Inside 25
Centre for Professional Learning 26
Advertising 26 , 27
DT SMITH 27
Arts festival draws a crowd 28
At the heart of the issue 28

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EDUCATION  

Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation  

August 2017  

Vol 98 Nos  

Community key to  

funding campaign  

Federation will continue campaigning to ensure all public schools are provided with resources to meet the learning needs of all students  

There is no more significant campaign  

to make this country more equal than  

new line is added as anonymous user  

public school system, Federation Pres  

ident Maurie Mulheron said.  

"Australia's social cohesion and  

economic prosperity are predicated  

on the commitment of governments to  

uphold the rights and raise the living  

standards of all citizens, not just the  

few,” Mr Mulheron said.  

"To this end, Federation will  

continue campaigning to ensure all  

public schools are provided the neces  

sary resources to meet the learn  

ing needs of all students. Campaign  

efforts will need to go into overdrive to  

achieve it.”  

The schools funding package  

passed by Federal Parliament in June  

— inferior to the funding promised in  

the National Education Reform Agree  

ments (Gonski agreements) — means:  

The state-Commonwealth Gonski  

agreements will not be honoured:  

Billions of dollars due from 2018 will  

not be delivered.  

For NSW schools, this is estimated  

to be loss of approximately $1.5  

billion over the next four years. Some  

schools, therefore, will only receive  

10 per cent of the money needed to lift  

student outcomes.  

No longer sector-blind, needs  

based model: All private schools  

across Australia will now automati  

cally receive 80 per cent of the School  

ing Resource Standard (SRS) from the  

Commonwealth, regardless of need.  

By contrast, public schools will receive  

only 20 per cent of the SRS from the  

Commonwealth.  

This 80:20 fixed rate enshrines in  

law the myth that the Commonwealth  

is responsible for private schools.  

The original Gonski review said the  

responsibility needed to be shared.  

It is forecast 87 per cent of public  

schools will not have reached the SRS  

by 2023, in contrast to 65 per cent  

of private schools that will be at, or  

above, the SRS by 2023.  

Reduced Commonwealth fund  

ing commitment to be picked up by  

the states: The Federal Government,  

in acknowledging the massive short  

fall in their funding commitment, will  

attempt to force the states to lift their  

levels of funding or face cuts.  

This contradicts central feature  

of the original Gonski model, which  

argued that the level of government  

with the greatest capacity to raise  

revenue should do the heavy lifting.  

Students with disability will  

remain seriously underfunded: The  

Federal Government was scheduled to  

fully fund the Students with Disabil  

ity (SWD) loading in 2015, but it did not  

happen.  

Under the plan, students with disa  

bility will remain seriously under  

funded, and indeed, in some states  

and territories, the SWD funding will  

be cut.  

What the schools funding  

campaign has achieved  

The Turnbull Government's original  

plan to replace the National Educa  

tion Reform Agreements was for all  

schools to reach the 20 per cent and 80  

per cent point after 10 years.  

Due to overwhelming pressure from  

public school supporters, the Turnbull  

Government was forced to provide an  

additional $4.9 billion in compressed  

timeframe of six years.  

Next steps  

Federation has been assisting the  

federal office of the Australian Educa  

tion Union to prepare submission,  

on behalf of the branches, to the Inde  

pendent Review into Regional, Rural  

and Remote Education.  

Mr Mulheron said that despite the  

Review to Achieve Educational Excel  

lence in Australian Schools being  

restricted to examining strategies  

to improve educational outcomes,  

powerful statements linking resources  

to efficacy need to be made in submis  

sions. To achieve fully-funded  

model that shifts resources to the  

public school system, campaigning  

must be built on broader and deeper  

community engagement. This will  

involve effective organising strate  

gies, targeted campaign training for  

Federation workplace committees and  

community members, and signifi  

cant investment in resources.  

Accordingly, Federation will  

develop and implement comprehen  

sive schools funding campaign for the  

next federal election.  

Federation will continue to  

work with the AEU in the national  

campaign, as well as the peak NSW  

principal and parent organisations,  

other community organisations such  

as Aboriginal Education Consulta  

tive Group (AECG), Children and  

Young People with Disability Australia  

(CYDA), Ethnic Communities Council  

(ECC) and Australian Council of State  

School Organisations (ACSSO), Unions  

NSW and the ACTU.  

NAPLAN's failure  

prompts push to  

replace testing  

GARY ZADKOVICH  

DEPUTY PRESIDENT  

Federation is campaigning to  

replace the NAPLAN approach to  

assessment and testing.  

Endorsed at Annual Conference  

on 2-4 July, the campaign aims to  

protect the quality of teaching and  

learning in our public school class  

rooms from the negative effects of  

NAPLAN testing as it is currently  

formulated.  

The conference decision states:  

“The NAPLAN testing regime  

has failed to lift national perfor  

mance as measured by global tests;  

it has failed to enrich the quality of  

teaching practice; it has narrowed  

the range and depth of what is  

taught in the nation's classrooms;  

it has caused culture of shaming  

vulnerable children and commu  

nities with profound  

human cost; it has led  

to decline in the  

educational experi- |||  

ence of school chil-  

dren in the creative, ||  

performing and J|jj  

imaginative arts  

and in parts of the J||  

 

of young  

people. NAPLAN has  

failed by every criterion it has set  

itself. The current approaches to  

this type of assessment and testing  

must be replaced.”  

The campaign will address:  

• issues arising from the NAPLAN  

Online trial, such as unequal  

student access to computer tech  

nology, the inadequacies and  

inequities in the technical capac  

ity of schools, and computer  

marking of extended prose  

• the decision to base HSC liter  

acy and numeracy standard on  

Year NAPLAN results rather  

than the HSC syllabuses that are  

taught and examined  

• the “teaching to the test" trend  

caused by the attachment of high  

stakes to what was Urtcnded to be  

diagnostic test  

• the growing obsession with  

school and student data  

collection  

• the self-serving goals of edu-busi  

nesses that regard schools and  

students as consumer market  

for their products and services.  

Federation has published paper  

entitled Crossroads: Green Paper on  

Assessment Policy for use in profes  

sional development activities and for  

discussion with parents and commu  

nity members.  

It outlines key actions and ideas  

that are jeopardising the quality of  

teaching and learning in our class  

rooms and makes the case for chang  

ing current policies and practices.  

hard copy of the green paper  

has been posted to all principals and  

Federation Representatives. It is  

also available at www.nswtf.org.au/  

crossroads.  

The foundations for the  

NAPLAN campaign are being  

developed. Federation's position  

has been put in meetings with  

Department Secretary Mark Scott  

and Minister for Education  

Rob Stokes.  

JafcSBBfe. Meetings  

have been  

held, or are  

■Hfe. being organ  

ised, with the  

Federation of  

'w., -..“fie-, Parents and  

Citizens Asso  

fak/ ciations of NSW,  

the NSW Second  

ary Principals  

Council, Primary  

Principals’ Associ  

ation, the Independ  

tagSp' ent Education Union  

and at the national  

level with the Austral  

ian Education Union.  

The aim is to build strong  

alliance of parents, community  

members, teachers and principals  

to convince governments to funda  

mentally change their approach to  

assessment and testing.  

Federation is liaising with  

eminent academics with experi  

ence and expertise in this field.  

The case for change has been  

made to NESA. The same will be  

done with ACARA.  

As was achieved with schools  

.fundi the aim is to change the  

way people think about curricu  

lum, assessment and testing. It will  

take time and effort.  

With the quality of teaching  

i-and learning for all our students at  

stake, however, it is surely worth it.  

Auditor-General on ICT in  

schools Page  

NAPLAN Hotline Page  

Advice on NAPLAN document  

Page  

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