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Excellence hubs: 50 schools recognised
FIFTY schools in NSW will be designated ‘‘centres of excellence’’ and link with universities to specialise in teacher training and development.
The initiative, to be announced today for primary and high schools, aims to improve teacher quality as part of a $750 million Federal Government partnership with NSW over five years.
The schools, which will include Macarthur Girls High in Parramatta, will be required to share their expertise with a further 200 schools with video conferencing.
The NSW Minister for Education, Verity Firth, said the centres would play a similar role to teaching hospitals.
"Each centre for excellence will be linked with a university teaching faculty and we will select schools in disadvantaged communities that are consistently achieving strong results – an indicator of high-quality teaching,’’ she said.
"The centres for excellence will be hubs where our next generation of teachers can observe high-quality teaching first-hand and gain practical experience under close supervision.’’
She said universities would be able to send teaching students to the schools at all stages of their course, not just for the traditional internship. Permanent teachers at the schools would also have their skills upgraded through interaction with academics.
Each of the centres for excellence would receive an extra teacher from a pool of 100 newly qualified ‘‘highly accomplished’’ teachers who would be selected on merit instead of on years of service, and who would be paid about $98,000. The annual salary is $20,000 more than the wage for the most senior classroom teachers, just under $10,000 more than that of a department head, and about $7000 less than a that of a deputy principal.
Each centre will also receive start-up funding. A spokeswoman for Ms Firth said the amount had yet to be determined.
The deputy president of the NSW Teachers Federation, Gary Zadkovich, said the proposal had merit, but would need to be examined in more detail.
He said creating 100 new accomplished teacher positions across more than 2200 NSW schools was ‘‘tokenistic’’.
‘‘The Federal Government is not serious about improving teacher quality across the system if they are only funding 100 positions of this kind,’’ he said.
‘‘While the centres for excellence may produce positive outcomes in the selected schools, we need system-wide initiatives to ensure support across all schools.’’
The principal of Macarthur Girls High, Ken Gill, welcomed his school’s new status as a centre of excellence. ‘‘We are thrilled it is acknowledging that there is something very special going on here at our school in regard to quality teaching,’’ he said. ‘‘It will give us a chance to show other developing teachers what we are doing in the classroom.’’
Mr Gill said the school’s 1040 students were drawn from 50 primary schools, with 85 per cent of them coming from non-English-speaking backgrounds.
He said value-added data from the NSW Department of Education, which measures each student’s improvement during their school career, had ranked Macarthur within the top 20 per cent.
This meant the school had improved the performance of students across a range of abilities to a greater extent than most other schools. |
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