And some wordsmiths are full of beans.
Stripping tasks like lesson planning from teachers risks chipping away at work that teachers highly value and are experts in.
Some NSW schools struggled to fill up to 40 teacher vacancies last year in subjects including English,maths,science,PDHPE and technology.
More students have stunted vocabularies,failing to score more than 50 per cent in NAPLAN tests. Are you any better?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year - unless you work in education and are about to receive piles upon piles of useless gifts from well-meaning parents.
Thousands of public school deputy principals will be told to spend more time teaching under a radical plan to plug widespread staff shortages across the state.
Even better than Yellow Death.
Teachers who engage in a campaign to show solidarity with Palestine have been warned they could face misconduct processes if they are found to be in breach of their professional code of conduct.
But it doesn’t taste like chicken.
The Australian Education Union says job vacancies are at an all-time high,with as many as 2600 jobs yet to be filled,as the government announces the $229 million subsidy package.
Australian classrooms are more disorderly than ever – prompting an intensifying debate about how to control bad behaviour.