D J Irvine

Proud public school principal. Thoughts, opinions and ramblings are entirely my own.

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

@TVtheTeacher @Anncaro11 It's a perfect catch 22, need teacher to build teacher, and the crude circuit breaker available atm is improvement in pay and conditions, to at least stem the tide leaving the gig. Raising the status of the profession is a lever that has been used so ineffectively it's shameful.

[Christine Cawsey AM @chriscawsey]

Thanks @DrDebHayes Good common sense backed by real research not think tanks. We have had graduate standards for years and many ITE reviews. Governments have failed for a decade to graduate sufficient secondary teachers, and have failed to fund ITE in critical subject areas.

[Christine Cawsey AM @chriscawsey]

@abcnews Here we go again. People who know little about school education, especially complexity of secondary education decide that literacy and numeracy (now just media buzz words) are all ITE should be about. Why do they never value deep school based expertise? @JasonClareMP

[Alice Leung @aliceleung]

A thought-provoking piece from @DrDebHayes on the latest review into ITE - “we cannot have the confidence to trust its findings or recommendations because it includes misrepresentations of entire fields of knowledge and key research findings” https://t.co/y3TUVKrfvB

[Anncaro1 🙄🤣 @Anncaro11]

https://t.co/gTANDn2KpM

This clearly outlines the failure of this report. Sad really.

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

@Anncaro11 @TVtheTeacher Laughable that one of the "no brainers" of the report, a strengthened practicum process, requires a mentoring teacher who has the time to do the job properly. Most public school staff are struggling to scratch themselves.

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

@TroyPrimaryEd They cited NAPLAN data to support any evidence of this having an impact in the classroom!?!? Rote learnt explicit teaching for schools in that sector = teach to the test for mine...

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

@msrebeccabirch No... The paper loses cred as soon as you see who the chair was... hangs onto the notion he was a teacher and in touch with the profession, the slippery slope in NSW started with him. Strengthening pracs is the only bright idea in it and guess what it takes to do it well? $$'s

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

@Dean_Bilton @abcsport A great synopsis of day 2 and perhaps a great deal more, one of of your best.

[cobbaparle @cobbaparle]

@dizdarm Big tip, don’t buy in consulting.
Embed expertise.
Be substantial.
Make secondments return to their position not level up and miss the details of being an AP or Deputy. Too many half baked exec who don’t know the coal face basics causing burden.

[Barrie Cassidy @barriecassidy]

Now that the coalition doesn’t govern anywhere on the mainland time to accept that people care about climate change and they will never flirt with right wing religious zealots and their awful discriminatory prejudices.

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

@Anncaro11 Huzzah!!

[Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦📚🌈🗽🌹🇨🇱❤️ @DianeRavitch]

The best choice is your local public school. It welcomes everyone. It unifies community. It is the glue of democracy.

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

@KellyAlspals @_alex_lau @Richard_0866 @spenderallegra Which is precisely $13,189 too much.

[No-one @pertina1]

@spenderallegra Perhaps then we need to stop subsidising private schools, e.g. give state schools the $5 million govt. funding St Catherine’s, in your electorate, has received over the past decade, a school that’s just opened a $63 million auditorium/aquatic centre.

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

What game is the TMO watching tonight?!?!?!?! Rugby will continue to wander in the sporting wilderness while ever the game is picked apart by some joker watching a slo mo replay #sackthetmo. Good luck with the TV rights @rugbyworldcup if this crap continues. Rant complete.

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

Historic rally, public school red and independent yellow, MidCoast teachers say #HearOurVoice we deserve #MoreThanThanks

[Janet Fitzpatrick @mrsfitz2u]

Been part of this rodeo for 37 years. Teachers have always tailored “teaching” to suit the needs of their unique communities. With so many variables, who decides what is good performance so staff get paid more? What are the pay bingo benchmarks? @TeachersFed @AGavrielatos

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

Ahh that old chestnut of performance pay for teachers... "I can't think of another profession who doesn't get paid on performance..."- D. Perrottet. How about anyone in medical or social working professions or umm... Politicians! Not that you could call many of them professional.

[D J Irvine @DJ_Irvine]

Nice read, loved the Ecosystem metaphor @BrionyScott (although this week felt more like the set of Home and Away). You hit quite a few nails on the head! https://t.co/tNCWywLzx9