Maybe there could be room for teachers of one special subject. Perhaps they could train in a second subject while teaching the first?
I wonder about how kids will learn technical trades and engineering. In SA the TAFE trade workshops have been gutted of equipment. They expected kids to learn those at the employer location. Now the automotive industry is offshored those employers will fold and there will be no place or people to learn skills which could help Australia stabilise. What about electric vehicles. Renewable energy New rail technologies Could Australia bootstrap its own automotive industry and engineering capacity? Before the people with those skills to teach are lost Could be room for a range of single skill educators to offer a broader mesh of education? On 9 May 2014 13:25, Andy Farkas <an...@andyit.com.au> wrote: > > <http://delimiter.com.au/2014/05/09/reboot-ict-teacher-training-halt-computing-brain-drain/> > > I've posted the delimiter version because of this particular bit > by one of the commenters: > > <quote> > BruceH Posted 09/05/2014 at 1:03 pm | Permalink | Reply > > I'm happy to go on the record about this. > > I've not long left a senior role at IT Outsourcer and wanted to > get out of the race and into teaching/training - so I'm just > finishing my TAE. > > Just before I left I enquired about teaching at secondary school > and found out that I would need my Bachelor in Education. No > problem I thought, 1 year out of the workforce - no biggy for a > career change. So I went to apply and SURPRISE you need at least > 2 current (within 7 years) bachelor level qualifications as a > primary and secondary teaching subject. 25 years of experience > didn't could apparently. Oh, and that MBA - isn't really relevant > (we then had the "I just spent $30K with you to get this qual, so > it better become relevant" conversation - wasn't pretty). Hmmm... > the year off work is starting to look a lot like 3 - that becomes > problematic for income. > > So, here is the thing. There are a lot of senior level IT people > leaving the industry, a lot want to give something back but 3 > years is a long time off work for a career change. > > So, I lamented with a friend over at the DECS (Dept of edu etc) > and that the learning pathway for teachers looked a lot like it > was geared up for people to roll out of secondary school, into > Uni and then get into Teaching on the back of a double Arts degree > or two. He said that there was an announcement coming that might > make adult pathways easier because the department were faced with > an ageing workforce issue, especially with Men leaving within the > next few years and needed to think a lot outside of the square to > recruit and my issue was a great opportunity as the IT industry is > male dominated. (I thought there were some world's aligning) > > So, two weeks later, the Premier, standing with the unions > announces that SA needs to have the best quality teachers in the > country, so new teachers will now need a Masters of Education to > teach at Middle/Secondary school - so that 3 year career break and > full time study is now 4 years minimum for the two teaching > subjects and for the Masters of Education - this further bias the > pathway to those straight out of school with no life skills or > existing living standards and tends to prevent those with the > sciences applying because of the extremely high study workload > required to get 2 degrees,let alone go on and get the teaching > qualification. > > There are a lot of IT pro's out there who would make excellent > teachers - but at 4 years off work full time studying, you aren't > going to get them involved. I have little time when the politics > of the day suggest teacher shortages because between the pollies > and the unions - you are ignoring those with decent life experience > and skills. > > Want to get IT folks (or people with 20 years experience in anything > really) into teaching, then this is the issue. Fix the pathway, make > it easy for people to RPL based on experience. > </quote> > > -andyf > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
