"JZ John Zantey ( 3470)" wrote:
>
> <OT: my 2c nostalgic worth>
>
> I agree,
> I think it is a per-school thing,
<snip>
> I suppose we were fortunate enough to have a teacher who was doing some sort
> of phD in Computing at uni and he loved sharing his study/work with us
> little yr 9, 10, 11 and 12 students...
<RANT>
You have been very lucky. Not a lot of skilled IT professionals
want to teach in schools. Where else could they get $35k p.a. to
start with only a BSc and a DipEd and work their way up to $54k
p.a. after only 10 years of experience. The minor hassles of
having their cars, clothes and houses damaged, being denegrated by
their employer, their students and the general public, being
intimidated and threatened by students and parents etc.
I can't possibly imagine why we cant get good quality IT
professionals into the teaching profession!!!!
</RANT>
The TILT courses (which are offered to 30% of teachers) are a very
basic start where (in most instances) due to lack of funding the
Dept help teachers become computer literate by giving them a CDROM
to learn from.
While the Government thinks that all you need to do to get you
average teacher (many of whom have degrees in Education or
English/History/Psychology and have NEVER had any significant
training in the use of computers) to instill computer literacy in
students is to test it in grade 6 what can we expect?
Stay well and happy
Heracles
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