Australian teacher magazine conducted their annual EducationSurvey asking school staff across Australia for their views on the issues affecting the sector.
In part four is some of the comments received on the topics of technology in the classroom, and teacher librarians.
here are 2 comments from the article....
“Of great concern to me is the reduction in the number of Australian primary schools with a qualified teacher-librarian on staff. At a time when so much Federal BER funding has been put into primary school libraries, it is indeed a contradiction that primary school principals are allowed to continue down this road. I believe that deteriorating literacy levels are related to this current trend.”
'Teachers in specialist positions (e.g. Teacher Librarians and Careers Advisers) play a very important role in overall outcomes for students, but do not seem to be considered in most of the discussion about ‘teacher effectiveness’.”
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