Clean sweep for ACT Public School Early Childhood Teachers

snoopydoc said :

grunge_hippy said :

Early childhood teachers are trained to teach P-2. They need to go where there is need. That’s what it is like for every other teacher in the system, why not them?

For the longest time pre school teachers have been sitting in their own little world being autonomous, answering to no one. Now that they are under the control of the primary school they are attached to, they are now accountable and also have to reach and maintain standards of the new Early Childhood Framework. Just like everyone else.

I say suck it up.

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What’s so onerous about teaching any part of Pre-school Year 2 when you’ve been trained to do it?

Fear of, and resistance to change? We see it often in the APS/ACTGS every time there is an election or machinery of government change.

as an outsider looking in I would have to say this sounds like a big problem to me. My understanding is that the pedagogy (the framework under which they teach) of the preschool system and the early school systems are quite different. They have different purposes. So preschool teachers who have been preschool teachers for a long time will not be used to teaching to the school system and will not be up on the latest in teaching in schools. I can imagine it would be enormously difficult to catch up. Usually teachers do regular training in their fields each year to keep up to date. Preschool teachers obviously wont have done any training in school teaching.
As a parent of a young school child I am not happy about the idea at all.

Our local southside early childhood teacher had been around for a long time & should have been moved on ages ago for her own sake & the children’s sake. I think it is a good move.

PM said :

The AEU is a bunch of ex-communists.

The AEU is a bunch of ex-communists.

Fixed it for you.

joingler said :

Madam Cholet said :

Having dealt with the school admin so far they seem to take their own good time to get things done such as sorting through enrolments etc. and don’t even think that before and after school care would be sorted at the same time. No, that is done by another area….except when you speak to the other area, they say that they are not the ones looking after that – it’s the previous people that you spoke to! And as for the teachers….well, if there were points for saying as many educational buzz words as possible in a sentence then they’d win every time! Hoping that they can also walk the walk…..

I work in Before/After School Care and we are a separate organisation to the school. I think this is the case in the majority of schools although not all (I know Majura in Watson is run byy the school P&C)

On the actual topic (and kind of related to my point above), if your wife finds herself out of work, tell her to come work in Before/After School Care. We are desperately short of School Aged Care Coordinators in the ACT so there’s always a job around somewhere.

Sounds like problem solved!

The AEU is a bunch of ex-communists.

Madam Cholet said :

Having dealt with the school admin so far they seem to take their own good time to get things done such as sorting through enrolments etc. and don’t even think that before and after school care would be sorted at the same time. No, that is done by another area….except when you speak to the other area, they say that they are not the ones looking after that – it’s the previous people that you spoke to! And as for the teachers….well, if there were points for saying as many educational buzz words as possible in a sentence then they’d win every time! Hoping that they can also walk the walk…..

I work in Before/After School Care and we are a separate organisation to the school. I think this is the case in the majority of schools although not all (I know Majura in Watson is run byy the school P&C)

On the actual topic (and kind of related to my point above), if your wife finds herself out of work, tell her to come work in Before/After School Care. We are desperately short of School Aged Care Coordinators in the ACT so there’s always a job around somewhere.

grunge_hippy said :

Early childhood teachers are trained to teach P-2. They need to go where there is need. That’s what it is like for every other teacher in the system, why not them?

For the longest time pre school teachers have been sitting in their own little world being autonomous, answering to no one. Now that they are under the control of the primary school they are attached to, they are now accountable and also have to reach and maintain standards of the new Early Childhood Framework. Just like everyone else.

I say suck it up.

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What’s so onerous about teaching any part of Pre-school Year 2 when you’ve been trained to do it?

I’m not sure what the issue is? Kindergarten and Year 1 are classified as early childhood.

It’s not like she is being asked to teach high school.

Is this anything to do with some principals’ new found ability to hire and fire of their own accord? I do sympathise, but it happens a lot in commercial land – you can come in any day and be told there’s going to be a restructure and that you will have to re-apply.

Doesn’t sound like info is being made available as much as people would like but doubt that children will be irreparably harmed in the process. I’m about to send my son to pre-school next year and would like to know that the best people are in the jobs, and not just because you have been there since time began.

Having dealt with the school admin so far they seem to take their own good time to get things done such as sorting through enrolments etc. and don’t even think that before and after school care would be sorted at the same time. No, that is done by another area….except when you speak to the other area, they say that they are not the ones looking after that – it’s the previous people that you spoke to! And as for the teachers….well, if there were points for saying as many educational buzz words as possible in a sentence then they’d win every time! Hoping that they can also walk the walk…..