{"id":19032,"date":"2022-11-09T03:48:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=19032"},"modified":"2022-11-09T03:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:48:17","slug":"teacher-shortages-inquiry-report-reveals-grave-consquences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/teacher-shortages-inquiry-report-reveals-grave-consquences\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Shortages Inquiry Report Reveals Grave Consquences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=88f9532f98b1329de81e6adfa&amp;id=8c60a59905&amp;e=c1cc2c029f\">interim report of the Inquiry into Teacher Shortages in New South Wales<\/a>&nbsp;reveals the serious and real world impacts of the teacher shortages facing schools. &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>The overwhelming evidence to the inquiry concluded the teacher shortage had caused declining education outcomes; merged classes; minimal supervision and out-of-field teaching.<br>&nbsp;<br>The report also found that casualisation of the teaching workforce as well as burdensome administration workload had led to burn out and attrition of the teaching workforce.<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cIn recent years, results against standardised tests including NAPLAN have stagnated and parents and teachers report the negative effects that merged classes, minimal supervision and out-of-field teaching have on students.\u201d [p.12]<\/em><\/strong><br>&nbsp;<br><strong><em>\u201cThe lack of available casual staff has meant that out-of-field teaching, merged classes and minimal supervision are an increasing phenomenon within NSW schools.\u201d [p.9]<\/em><\/strong><br>&nbsp;<br><strong><em>\u201cThe current lack of workforce planning coupled with a failure to recognise the underlying causes of the shortages will only intensify the crisis being felt across NSW schools.\u201d [p.12]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<br>These issues were reflected in a survey of 11,299 teachers issued as part of the inquiry, which found that:<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=88f9532f98b1329de81e6adfa&amp;id=9c7776f983&amp;e=c1cc2c029f\">92%<\/a>&nbsp;reported teacher shortages causing merged and cancelled classes;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=88f9532f98b1329de81e6adfa&amp;id=bce0b4b4a5&amp;e=c1cc2c029f\">65%<\/a>&nbsp;reported teacher shortages causing out-of-field teaching; and<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=88f9532f98b1329de81e6adfa&amp;id=e1de353ea2&amp;e=c1cc2c029f\">39%<\/a>&nbsp;reported teacher shortages leading to unsupervised classes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NSW Government\u2019s own figures reveal there has been a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=88f9532f98b1329de81e6adfa&amp;id=eaa8406e42&amp;e=c1cc2c029f\">30% reduction in people studying teaching in NSW<\/a>.<br><br>NSW Labor has already begun announcing solutions to help solve the Perrottet Government\u2019s teacher shortages, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>creating 10,000 more permanent teaching roles in NSW by shifting temporary positions into permanent roles in a bid to stem teacher attrition rates; and<\/li><li>conducting a line-by-line audit of all administrative tasks\u2019 teachers are required to do, to deliver a reduction of 5 hours of administrative work per week.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<br>The inquiry, which began in June 2022 has held four hearings, receiving evidence from teachers, parents and experts, and will resume in early 2023.<br>&nbsp;<br><strong>Chris Minns, NSW Labor Leader, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This report only confirms the very real world impacts that teachers, students and parents have known for too long.<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cMerged and cancelled classes, declining education outcomes, and students left on their own.<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cThe rampant casualisation of the teaching workforce and the escalating administration workloads under the Liberals and Nationals is seeing our teachers burnt&nbsp;out and leaving in droves.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Prue Car, NSW Deputy Labor Leader and Shadow Minister for Education, said:<\/strong><br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cUnder the Perrottet Government, chronic teacher shortages are leaving students with cancelled or merged classes each and every day.<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cThis inquiry is shining a light on the Perrottet Government\u2019s failure to ensure every child has a qualified teacher in front of them in the classroom.<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cStudent outcomes have continued to go backwards over 12 years of Liberal National Government in NSW, and it\u2019s crystal clear that change is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s&nbsp;interim report of the Inquiry into Teacher Shortages in New South Wales&nbsp;reveals the serious and real world impacts of the teacher shortages facing schools. &nbsp;&nbsp;The overwhelming evidence to the inquiry concluded the teacher shortage had caused declining education outcomes; merged classes; minimal supervision and out-of-field teaching.&nbsp;The report also found that casualisation of the teaching workforce &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/teacher-shortages-inquiry-report-reveals-grave-consquences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teacher Shortages Inquiry Report Reveals Grave Consquences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19033,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19032\/revisions\/19033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}