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Teachers’ integral role in successful 2019 for SACE

Teachers have played an integral role in a successful 2019 for the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE). This year, the SACE Board has continued its work to modernise the SACE and the ways we work to better support SACE teachers. In electronic assessment, more …

Annual Membership Update

New fee category for 2020 IEU(SA) membership fees have remained unchanged for the last two years, but the time has come that we cannot absorb our cost increases for a third year and maintain the level of support and service that members rightly expect from their Union. …

Orange Our World to End Violence Against Women

Orange Our World to End Violence Against Women There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.” – Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General 25 November 2019 is International Day for the Elimination …

Five Tips to Help Non-Government Schools Manage LGBTIQA+ Student Issues

Recently, there has been a lot of media attention on the way non-government schools manage issues relating to LGBTIQA+ students and prospective students. Public commentary often makes these issues seem fraught, complicated and intimidating. But they don’t have to be. LGBTIQA+ stands for lesbian, gay, …

The link between class size, teacher workload and student achievement is complex.

Research and argument into the impact of class size and teacher workload on student achievement regularly presents in the media and academic papers, in research and schoolyard discussions. Research suggests that the effects of smaller class sizes “have been hard to isolate and measure,” which …

125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in South Australia

This year, the Office for Women are commemorating the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in South Australia. It’s a great time to recognise the changes to the law in 1894, when women won the right to vote and stand for parliament in South Australia – …

TRB SA – submission by the IEU

On November 8, your Union lodged a submission to the Legislative Review Committee objecting to the proposed amendments to the Teachers Registration and Standards Act 2004. Prior to the official submission we organised multiple social media messages such as the graphic below to clarify visually our …

SA Government Declares War on Teachers

  The SA Teachers Registration Board is about undergo radical change if the government gets its way. We have until November 8th for comment. The TRB is totally funded by teachers but the proposal is to remove the requirement for any registered or practicing teachers to …

Bullying against teachers: a common problem in Australia

As we focus on World Teachers’ Day, we have compiled another article about bullying to expand upon earlier reports in our June In Brief edition. Our WTD focus was to produce a celebration of teachers for 25 October and you will see that in our …

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