teaching in N.T

When I was a kid on the Nullarbor, the teacher we had was 90 years old when my Mum insisted she return to her family in Adelaide. But tell you what, she was thorough! Every morning we had to do 10 minutes of exercise (streching, deep breathing etc); resite The Lords Prayer and sing the National Anthem (God Save The King, back then)! In doing Correspondence lessons, every word had to be known by heart before she would return the work to Adelaide, and we practically had to know the times-tables backwards. We thought she was a tough old biddy, but certainly learnt what she taught! So at 90, she must have thought hell waspretty good!

You might remember her foldly now, but I'll bet you weren't impressed as a kid !

Footloose - I know a few teachers who retired early because they were fed up with bureacracy, meetings and bulldust. They happily teach on as relief teachers, where they know the kids want to learn, and they just teach, which is what they are trained and experienced at doing.

Harry - I reckon it would be important to enquire about how good or bad the teaching positions were, and how motivated the kids were. Hope you can find someone who has done it!

Max

Harry, as a casual teacher, you have some latitude in terms of programming, paperwork, meetings and school politics. You are also not covered under the same umbrella in many areas as permanents, and can be taken advatage of well and truly. It's not a great way to make a living.
Might be a good way to suppliment your income as you go around, but there are numerous obsticles.
Firstly, each state has its own teacher registration board. Then there's the necessity for police checks, different in every state.
Next is the situations themselves. You might be lucky and get a week because someone is on leave or a course. More than likely they're on stress leave in areas which are difficult to retain staff in anyway. Motivated kids ? The two don't usually go together, if you're a casual then the kids generally see you as a target for their sillyness and misbehaviour.
Just teaching eh ? Show me that situation and I'll show you a casual who only teaches in one selected school or area.
It's a good theory. Retired teachers making some cash as they travel. Looks like easy money. But I doubt that many retired teachers are that desperate.
It would be a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire.

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