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. 49 No. 20 (4 Dec 1968)
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Contents

Education Journal of The New South Wales Teachers' Federation 1
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1968 1
EDUCATION 2
AN EXAMPLE IN TEACHER RECRUITMENT 2
The President Writes The Significance of Our 50th Anniversary 2
NATIONAL PETITION TAKEN ON EDUCATION CRISIS 2
The Migrant Child 3
MINISTER’S REPLY TO TEACHERS’ FEDERATION THE GOVERNMENT RECORD 4
What has been done 4
THE BUILDING AND STAFFING OF SCHOOLS 4
STOP WORK and SUPERANNUATION 4
Advertising 4
FIFTY YEARS of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation: 1918-1968 5
The growth of the Federation 6
FIFTY YEARS 6
How we celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary 7
ACTIVITIES; scone memorable examples 8 , 9 , 10
Education 9
Affiliation with A.C.T.U., N.S.W. Labor Council and A.C.S.P.A. 10
Government of N.S.W. Teachers' Federation 10
Community activities 11
1918-1968: The First Fifty Years. A time of industrial, educational and professional effort 11
The Legal Cases Committee 11
Federation Library 12
The Health Society 12
The Australian Teachers' Federation 12
The Teachers’ Club 12
DISCUSSED DURING COUNCIL MEETING The Training and Recruitment of Teachers 13
Councils Resolution 13
Annual Teachers' Service 1969 13
Advertising 13
How large should classes be? 13
Advertising 13
MR. MCMAHON: NEW VILLAIN IN THE PIECE? 14
Advertising 14
The Health Society Contributions Increased, Benefits Improved 14
THE HEALTH SOCIETY 14
Advertising 15
THE ABORIGINAL PAST 15
FEDERATION LIBRARY 15
EDUCATION CROSSWORD No. 87 15
Advertising 15
Teaching Infants 15
Australian Teachers’ Federation ANNUAL CONFERENCE 15
BERRIMA PUBLIC SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION COURSE FOR 1970 16
EDUCATION AND THE LOAN FUNDS 16

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Education  

Journal of The New South Wales Teachers' Federation  

1918-1968: FIFTY YEARS OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS  

Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as periodical.  

Vol. 49, No. 20  

DECEMBER 4, 1968  

Price: Three cents  

ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1968  

The first conference of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation  

was held on December 16, 17 and 18, 1919. On these  

same dates this year teachers will meet in conference  

at the close of what has probably been the most mo-  

mentous year in the history of education in this state.  

THEY WILL MEET as group more  

firmly united than at any time since the  

formation of the Federation. They will  

meet as group discontented with the pro-  

visions that are made for education in our  

schools and determined to press on to the  

utmost of their influence in order to ensure  

that adequate schools are provided, that these  

schools are properly staffed and that the  

children of this community are properly  

taught.  

The teachers of New South Wales are  

united because they have faced and assessed  

the difficulties which restrict them in their  

work of developing the mental and physical  

abilities of the children in the schools. They  

have, for the time at least, forgotten individual  

differences of opinion and joined together in  

order to impress upon the Government and  

upon educational administrators, the urgency  

of the need for modern society to provide an  

adequate, well-staffed and properly-equipped  

education system.  

When Conference assembled in December  

1967, the Conference topic was “The Work-  

ing Conditions of Teachers”. Prepared by the  

Barrier Association, the resolution presented  

to the 49th Conference was discussed at  

length and throughout the debate the strength  

of the feeling of teachers became increasingly  

apparent.  

large number of amendments was sub-  

mitted and finally committee was established  

by Conference to prepare consolidated pro-  

posal. The standards set for class sizes are  

worth reviewing as delegates prepare them-  

selves for the debates in which they will take  

part this year.  

Last year’s resolutions said in part “that  

the following maxima should determine the  

sizes of classes in the schools:  

• No class should exceed 37 pupils.  

• No fourth, fifth or sixth form secondary  

class should exceed 26 pupils.  

• No primary or junior secondary composite  

class should exceed 30 pupils; no composite  

fourth form, fifth form or sixth form  

secondary class should exceed 18 (a com-  

posite class consisting of different levels in  

the same form).  

• No class in any form should be combined  

with class in another form.  

• No practical classes in primary or second-  

ary schools should exceed 24.  

• No technical college theory class should  

exceed 36, and no practical class should  

exceed 12.  

• No activity class should exceed 22.”  

These standards have not been met during  

1968. Government that is apparently more  

concerned with the needs of private schools than those  

of the State schools has failed to continue to reduce class  

sizes. Indeed, teachers in some areas have seen class  

sizes generally increase.  

for classes left unattended because of the ab-  

sence of colleague. And finally teachers  

throughout the State refrained from duty for  

one day to register their active protest against  

the ineptitude and lack of sympathy of the  

Public Service Board complacent in the belief  

that teachers would not do this horrible thing,  

and of politicians concerned above all things  

with the winning of votes at elections.  

It will be the responsibility of delegates to  

the 50th Conference to determine policy for  

the N.S.W. Teachers’ Federation for the  

ensuing twelve months. Once again, the topic  

is concerned with the working conditions of  

teachers. Once again, teachers are concerned  

because they are forced to recognise the fact  

that they are no longer able to teach as  

efficiently as they ought in order to maintain  

the educational standards that are required in  

modern society.  

CONCERNED as they are with the well-  

being of pupils, teachers are also forced  

by the strength of economic pressures to  

be conscious of their own personal problems.  

During 1969 the salaries agreement will expire  

and it will be necessary to negotiate new salary  

standards for the teaching service.  

An unhappy record exists of the attitude of  

the Public Service Board towards teachers’  

salaries. Extension of the metal trades award  

has been stubbornly refused and subsequently  

the decision of the Commonwealth Concilia-  

tion Commission raising salaries by $1.35 per  

week was influenced by the fact that so many  

sections of the community received flow-on  

from the metal trades award.  

Among the decisions to be made by Con-  

ference will be the approval or the amend-  

ment of the salaries claim that has been pre-  

pared by the Salaries Panel and endorsed by  

Council.  

No disgrace exists in the fact that teachers  

or any other group of people at one time or  

another ask for increases in their wages.  

The fact is, of course, that as an economy  

expands and increases its wealth, so those who  

make some contribution to that increase and  

expansion are entitled to some additional  

reward for their labours.  

Conference will be opened this year by Mr.  

D. A. Taylor, past president who played  

prominent part during his years in the teach-  

ing service as member of the Teachers’  

Federation. Delegates no doubt will welcome  

the chance of again meeting Don Taylor and  

of hearing him speak on the problems past  

and present which concern the Teachers’  

Federation.  

BECAUSE THESE STANDARDS have not been met,  

it is not surprising that the class sizes sought in  

the draft resolution to be considered by Confer-  

ence this year are little different from those which were  

sought for 1968. The only major change asks that tech-  

nical college theory classes should not exceed 30, while  

practical classes be restricted to 15.  

An administration which lacks the drive that will  

ensure achievement has failed to impress upon politicians  

the urgency of the needs of the schools. Conditions and  

educational standards have accordingly declined.  

Relief staff was not provided until teachers, acting on  

their own initiative, refused to accept the responsibility  

FEDERATION HOUSE  

TEACHERS IN HYDE PARk, OCTORER 1968  

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