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Legal - The student-teacher relationship: how close is too close?
Legal claims and allegations regarding student-teacher relationships are becoming more common, and it seems the taboo (for both parties) has done little to stop career-ending instances for teachers.
Legal: ‘D’ for discipline
Many teachers will have some interaction with a disciplinary process during their careers. It is therefore worth having a basic knowledge of what the process involves.
Legal: "Justice" on tap
An innocent “tap” to the arm of a student from a teacher demonstrating proper behaviour to a class has eventually led to the member defending criminal charges of assault.
Legal: “Touchy feely” teacher’s dismissal was fair
A recent Fair Work decision reminds teachers of the dangers of even relatively innocent over-familiar conduct with students.
Legal: Disciplinary action against principal set aside
A principal is back at school after the Department of Education’s attempt to discipline her for allegedly “talking abruptly” to a member of staff was set aside by the QIRC.
Members respond to Senate inquiry into country air services
The QTU has made a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport inquiry into the operation, regulation and funding of air services in rural and remote communities.
Members turn up the heat on climate control
Following the first Workload and Wellbeing Awareness Month (WWAM) in 2017, a number of key strategies to address workload and wellbeing continue to progress.
NAPLAN ballot draws a line in the sand
Late in 2017, more than 20,000 QTU members expressed their feelings about standardised testing and robot marking, loudly and clearly, by voting in large numbers to ban the implementation of NAPLAN Online, call for a full review of the NAPLAN testing regime, reject robot marking and resist any move to implement the Turnbull government’s proposed standardised phonics test for six year olds.
NAPLAN Online FAQs
The QTU is banning NAPLAN Online. Here you can find the answers to some of the common questions raised about the Union’s position.
NAPLAN survey results are in: time for a review!
More than four and a half thousand teachers and school leaders have completed the QTU’s NAPLAN and MySchool member survey.
NAPLAN tri-state review - interim report released
The interim report of the tri-state review into NAPLAN provides much food for thought.
NAPLAN: Evaluation is just good policy
Greg Thompson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, QUT School of Teacher Education and Leadership, backs the QTU's call for a full review of NAPLAN.
NAPLAN: sample over census
With NAPLAN 2021 behind us, the issues that the QTU has raised in recent months around the national test remain.
New office, new faces for 2018
With growth in membership across the past two years taking our number of members above 45,000 for the first time in our history, the QTU has appointed an extra Regional Organiser and opened a new office.
New P-12 CARF implemented
The new P-12 Curriculum and Reporting Framework (P-12 CARF), which includes a number of changes around reporting, is now being implemented.
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