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

Call Number
Nef 331.8809944 EDU
Created/Published
Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
Issue
Vol. 97 No. 01 (29 Feb 2016)
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Contents

EDUCATION Journal of the new south wales theachers federation 1
It's on for Gonski! 1
Major gains in new school staffing agreement 1
EDUCATION 2
contents 2
Teachers Federation House 2
Executive 2
Officers 2
Organisers 2
ARTICLES, LETTERS AND PHOTOS 2
Ball now firmly in Turnbull's court ALP announcement boosts Gonski campaign 3
Maintenance backlog grows 3
Advertising 3
OUR FED REPS 3
Neelica Raffel: Villawood East PS 3
Oldest school turns 200 4
More than 150,000 signed up 4
All hands needed for ramped-up Gonski effort 4
Prevent workplace violence 4
Gonski money crucial for working conditions Why the Gonski funding package is important for every teacher 5
IRC meets on HSC markers’ pay 5
Sign up to a future for TAFE 5
Campus closures coming like runaway train 5
Fund set up to help children of slain teacher Brian Liston 6
ASSOCIATION SPOTLIGHT Inverell TA 6
WHAT’S 6
Reading age rises by 1.9 years in 15 weeks Stunning literacy results spur students on 7
Fair chance to show Federation colours 7
New courses expand CPL training portfolio 7
Federation disputes recruitment of 'school psychologists’ in IRC 8
VET funding issues Inquiry urges caution on contestability 8
School counsellors’ pay advice 8
The call gathers force-#letthemstay 9
Feds intent on stripping support for babies and parents 9
Paid parental leave history 9
New award protects status of prison teachers 9
Motor vehicle allowances Teachers may face tax liability 10
New members make union stronger 10
Agreement to discuss beginning teacher support 10
Lessons to be learned 10
Major TAFE teacher breakthroughs while Alan led TAFETA Vale TAFE advocate Alan Jones 11
Join together to stop violence against women 11
Advertising 11
PRESIDENT WRITES TO CLIMB THE HILL Maurie Milheron 12
Advertising 12
Letters Birth pangs 13
Going in different directions with sex education 13 , 14
We turned right and crashed 14
Swimming award caps struggle for survival 14
Room to differ but not to attack 14
Inclusive decisionmaking 14
CAPRBON COPY EBS has beaten me 13
School choice 13
Advertising 13 , 14
your say 15
Cops and robbers You think a deregulated VET sector was a bridge too far? 15
Inside 15
Federation Officers 16 , 17
Smart and killed Malcolm Turnbull will rue the day he did not act on his words 18
Advertising 18
features 19
A track leading back How Aboriginal Studies breaks down walls in Inverell 19 , 20
Inside 19
Paper Plane 20
A paltry amount of class time is given to developing a love of writing The write time 20
Picture perfect: show displays student talent 21
IN THE LIBRARY New resources for loan 21
Advertising 22
Paving the way to ‘positive education’ 23
Advertising 23
Retired 24 , 25
Vale Harvey Rose and Don Brown 24
Advertising 24
SOCIAL NEWS 25
Advertising 25 , 26
reviews 27
Film 27 , 28
Inside 27
COMPUTER CORNER 28
Advertising 28
Theatre 29 , 30
BOOK 29
I Can Shine: 29
CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES 29
CORK SCREW 30
Teacher's picks 30
administration 31
2016 Trade Union Training Program — Semester 1 31
Course content 31 , 32
Inside 31
Advertising 32
Background information 32
CPL courses Term 1 and 2-2016 33 , 34
Advertising 35
DT SMITH 35
SNAPPED IN AND OUT OF CLASS 36

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Journal of the new south wales theachers federation  

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Major gains in new school staffing agreement  

Gary Zadkovich  

Deputy President  

The Teachers Federation has ne-  

gotiated new, strengthened staff-  

ing agreement for all NSW public  

schools, to be implemented from  

the start of term 2,2016 to the end of  

term 1,2020.  

This is significant achievement.  

It is rare to find another educa-  

tional jurisdiction anywhere in the  

world that has such regulated,  

statewide staffing system that en-  

sures security, stability and equity  

for students, teachers and schools.  

In related move, the Department  

has committed to working with Fed-  

eration to develop new promotions  

system in the first six months of this  

year. This is an important opportu-  

nity to develop long-overdue reform  

of the way teachers are promoted to  

leadership positions.  

Balancing the key priorities: The  

agreement balances school’s op-  

portunity to meet student needs by  

locally selecting teachers with par-  

ticular qualifications, skills and ex-  

periences, with maintaining trans-  

fer system that ensures statewide  

equity in teacher supply and curric-  

ulum delivery for students.  

This is vital, especially for our  

more challenging and remote  

schools.  

In contrast to the prevalence of  

casual and limited-term, contract-  

based employment in the broader  

workforce, permanency in employ-  

ment for teachers is protected. This is  

key recruitment and retention incen-  

tive for working in NSW public schools.  

Crucially, class sizes are also pro-  

tected for four more years.  

More permanent employment op-  

portunities: new provision ena-  

bles schools to use additional Gonski  

funding to create extra permanent  

teaching positions above the core  

staffing entitlement.  

This is vast improvement on past  

practice. When the additional fund-  

ing for special equity programs such  

as the National Partnerships was  

temporary the jobs created were also  

temporary. Now that the extra fund-  

ing is built into the recurrent, needs-  

based Gonski model, schools can es-  

tablish new positions permanently.  

In its report, National Education  

Reform Agreement NSW Budget  

2013/14, the NSW Department of  

Education published the annual al-  

locations to each school sector for  

2014-2019. It showed that $382 million  

in new, additional Gonski funding  

would be allocated to public schools  

this year. This rises to $745 million in  

2017. If the Federal Government hon-  

ours its full commitment to the NSW  

agreement, this will increase to 1. 153  

billion in 2018 and $1,597 billion in  

2019.  

Huge benefits will flow from this  

investment. Individual students will  

gain much-needed additional learn-  

ing support, the quality of teaching  

and learning will be enhanced, and  

more teachers will gain secure, perma-  

nentteaching and executive positions.  

Rigorous monitoring of  

temporary appointments  

This highlights the importance of  

continuing the campaign to convince  

the federal Liberal and National par-  

ties to fully fund the Gonski model as  

their NSW counterparts are doing.  

The new agreement also includes  

more rigorous auditing and monitor-  

ing of temporary teacher appoint-  

ments into permanent vacancies in  

schools. This will be done through  

joint Federation-Department com-  

mittee. Breaches of the agreed process  

willbe pursued andrectified.  

Implementation of the new process:  

Updated procedures manuals, re-  

sources and training are being devel-  

oped. The Department and Federa-  

tion have agreed to present training for  

principals and Federation Representa-  

tives on the new staffing agreement as  

component of the Performance and  

Development Framework workshops  

being planned for later this term and  

earlyinterm2if necessary.  

The staffing agreement was  

achieved through positive negotia-  

tions between the Department and  

Federation, conducted with good-  

will and shared commitment to  

providing high-quality public edu-  

cation for all students.  

Federation encourages all prin-  

cipals and Federation Workplace  

Committees to strive to emulate this  

approach at school level.  

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N.S.W. Teachers' Federation & New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation. (1919). Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation Retrieved August 12, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-689784230

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