Full steam ahead til the end of the year
My last blog was back in June and I thought then that time had passed me by.
The challenges we find in the teaching profession.
It has been 10 weeks of action packed, full on activity and a time when staff have really stepped up, under difficult circumstances, to take on new and exciting challenges. Often assumptions are made about the role of staff but little is done to really understand the job they do.
Let us take a typical teacher, university trained in a specific field. Trained as an educationalist and also developed in their chosen discipline. You would expect, as in any walk of life, that when you are trained to do a job that is what you do. Teaching, however, throws up other challenges, social welfare, arbitration and conciliation expert, psychologist, guardian, dealer in social justice, supervisor, first aider, OHS observer and enforcer and disciplinarian, only to name a few. The teacher requires good management skills, an ability to communicate and the understanding, in an age of a quick fix society, that students want it 'now'. Teaching requires a real and practical understanding of how technology can be utilised in the learning process as the vast majority of our students have never known life without a computer of or a mobile phone.
Teaching is really a multidiscipline job that requires passion and commitment, passing on knowledge and developing in students a desire to enquire and to succeed.
We should thank our staff for the job that they do and remember to support them as they take on the other challenges related to your children.
21 Years in 2010 and Celebrating our ‘coming of age’
We are really looking forward to this occasion and would ask that all families keep a weather eye open for dates and activities.
Acting Headmaster
Arndell Anglican College
