[20-Feb-2022 02:14:48 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vendors/cf7.php:8 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vendors/cf7.php on line 8 [21-Feb-2022 01:47:50 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vendors/woocommerce.php:19 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vendors/woocommerce.php on line 19 [20-Feb-2022 05:33:37 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vc-pages/settings-tabs.php:27 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vc-pages/settings-tabs.php on line 27 Comments on: New Reforms in Computer Science will Examine Teacher’s Skills http://australianscience.com.au/education/new-reforms-in-computer-science-will-examine-teachers-skills/ Independent Initiative for Advancement of Science and Research in Australia Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:16:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robert Hart http://australianscience.com.au/education/new-reforms-in-computer-science-will-examine-teachers-skills/#comment-22709 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:26:09 +0000 http://www.australianscience.com.au/?p=13129#comment-22709 As a senior Maths/Physics teacher, the concerns that “many specialist teachers can not do everything that’s in the Curriculum” will become very significant when the senior curriculum is introduced in 2015/6. Having spent most of my professional career outside secondary education and with a first degree in Engineering, I am relishing the thought a more academically rigorous Maths/Physics curriculum here in Queensland. However, I can already see problems arising from the National Curriculum up to grade 10: the new 10 Advanced Maths program is beyond Maths teacher with little or no STEM background. Similar problems arise in the 10 Science program.

Upgrading teachers’ knowledge to deal with the new curriculum is a huge job – and one which appears to be on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” list for our political masters. It is also a solution that has serious limitations: sufficient knowledge to teach the new curriculum is not going to provide the depth to handle the needs of the brighter students’ inquiring minds. This risks turning such students off Maths/Science – a national disaster we cannot afford.

The only long term solution to this is to make a teaching career attractive to people of all ages who have a strong background in Maths/Science – and that requires a significant rethink of teaching, teacher education and teaching career structure(s) which appears on no radar of which I am aware.

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