{"id":8062,"date":"2020-09-07T21:57:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2020-09-07T21:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:57:52","slug":"best-in-class-to-support-more-teachers-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/07\/best-in-class-to-support-more-teachers-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018BEST IN CLASS\u2019 TO SUPPORT MORE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 700 HSC teachers at 300 schools across NSW have already benefitted from the NSW Government\u2019s Best in Class team of teachers.<br \/>\nThe team has spent the last six months supporting HSC students and will now expand to support more teachers with mathematics and writing across all secondary years.<br \/>\nPremier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell announced 16 new teachers will be hired to join the Best in Class team.<br \/>\nMs Berejiklian said the NSW Government is focusing on the core subjects of literacy, numeracy and STEM in implementing its new curriculum.<br \/>\n\u201cThe \u2018Best in Class\u2019 team have done an excellent job supporting teachers with remote learning techniques during the pandemic and offering easy-to-access teaching materials online.<br \/>\n\u201cThe team will now expand to ensure teachers across NSW are equipped with the best skills to support students, with a focus on writing and mathematics.<br \/>\n\u201cThe teachers selected to deliver the program stand out and we want to replicate these great teaching methods across the all the State\u2019s classrooms.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Mitchell said the team has proven invaluable during the pandemic, developing on-demand professional learning materials and supporting staff remotely.<br \/>\n\u201cThe \u2018Best in Class\u2019 team directly supported teachers during the pandemic. This effort was supplemented by the HSC Hub which has had over 33,000 user visitors since going live on July 1,\u201d Ms Mitchell said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe teams and these additional streams will continue to grow, developing and delivering the best teaching practices to teachers across the state as we continue our focus on lifting student performance statewide.\u201d<br \/>\nBest in Class is a team comprising 66 of the state\u2019s best teachers who will share their classrooms skills directly with those teachers and students who need it most, while also developing a new &#8216;best practice&#8217; teaching package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 700 HSC teachers at 300 schools across NSW have already benefitted from the NSW Government\u2019s Best in Class team of teachers. The team has spent the last six months supporting HSC students and will now expand to support more teachers with mathematics and writing across all secondary years. Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/07\/best-in-class-to-support-more-teachers-and-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u2018BEST IN CLASS\u2019 TO SUPPORT MORE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS&#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-8062","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\/8062","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=8062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}