❓ Mr. Andrews asks about the Carpenter government's response to teachers' concerns regarding lack of peer and mentor support. Mr. McGowan details an $11 million mentoring program focused on science and mathematics teachers.
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TEACHERS — PEER AND MENTOR SUPPORT 47. Mr P.W. ANDREWS to the Minister for Education and Training: I refer to the report recently released by the Australian Education Union that states that 28.2 per cent of teachers surveyed identified a lack of peer and mentor support as one of their top concerns. What is the Carpenter government doing to address these concerns? Mr M. McGOWAN
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I thank the member for Southern River for the question. We value our teaching workforce and recognise that teaching is often a very difficult occupation, especially for teachers in their early years of teaching. Today the government launched an $11 million mentoring program, with the assistance of the University of Western Australia and its new Centre for Learning Technology—which I opened this afternoon—that will provide mentoring assistance for first and second-year science and mathematics teachers around Western Australia. This initiative means that retired experienced teachers, or university lecturers who have the time, can provide mentoring assistance to teachers in their early years in the profession to hopefully keep them in the workforce for longer. Teaching graduates in Western Australia received a unilateral pay rise recently from the government that, by a factor of a few hundred dollars, makes them the second-best paid graduate teachers in Australia. In comparison with other professionals, teaching graduates are some of the best paid after graduating from university. However, that is not enough. The government wants to ensure that they receive mentoring assistance through this program, which is why it is spending $11 million. Research shows that providing this sort of support is one of the most important things that can be done to keep teachers in the workforce for longer. Science and technology is very important in Western Australia, and the government wants to ensure that the state has a workforce for the long term, which is why this program has been implemented.
TEACHERS — PEER AND MENTOR SUPPORT
I refer to the report recently released by the Australian Education Union that states that 28.2 per cent of teachers surveyed identified a lack of peer and mentor support as one of their top concerns. What is the Carpenter government doing to address these concerns? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Southern River for the question. We value our teaching workforce and recognise that teaching is often a very difficult occupation, especially for teachers in their early years of teaching. Today the government launched an $11 million mentoring program, with the assistance of the University of Western Australia and its new Centre for Learning Technology—which I opened this afternoon—that will provide mentoring assistance for first and second-year science and mathematics teachers around Western Australia. This initiative means that retired experienced teachers, or university lecturers who have the time, can provide mentoring assistance to teachers in their early years in the profession to hopefully keep them in the workforce for longer. Teaching graduates in Western Australia received a unilateral pay rise recently from the government that, by a factor of a few hundred dollars, makes them the second-best paid graduate teachers in Australia. In comparison with other professionals, teaching graduates are some of the best paid after graduating from university. However, that is not enough. The government wants to ensure that they receive mentoring assistance through this program, which is why it is spending $11 million. Research shows that providing this sort of support is one of the most important things that can be done to keep teachers in the workforce for longer. Science and technology is very important in Western Australia, and the government wants to ensure that the state has a workforce for the long term, which is why this program has been implemented.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Southern River for the question. We value our teaching workforce and recognise that teaching is often a very difficult occupation, especially for teachers in their early years of teaching. Today the government launched an $11 million mentoring program, with the assistance of the University of Western Australia and its new Centre for Learning Technology—which I opened this afternoon—that will provide mentoring assistance for first and second-year science and mathematics teachers around Western Australia. This initiative means that retired experienced teachers, or university lecturers who have the time, can provide mentoring assistance to teachers in their early years in the profession to hopefully keep them in the workforce for longer. Teaching graduates in Western Australia received a unilateral pay rise recently from the government that, by a factor of a few hundred dollars, makes them the second-best paid graduate teachers in Australia. In comparison with other professionals, teaching graduates are some of the best paid after graduating from university. However, that is not enough. The government wants to ensure that they receive mentoring assistance through this program, which is why it is spending $11 million. Research shows that providing this sort of support is one of the most important things that can be done to keep teachers in the workforce for longer. Science and technology is very important in Western Australia, and the government wants to ensure that the state has a workforce for the long term, which is why this program has been implemented.
I thank the member for Southern River for the question. We value our teaching workforce and recognise that teaching is often a very difficult occupation, especially for teachers in their early years of teaching. Today the government launched an $11 million mentoring program, with the assistance of the University of Western Australia and its new Centre for Learning Technology—which I opened this afternoon—that will provide mentoring assistance for first and second-year science and mathematics teachers around Western Australia. This initiative means that retired experienced teachers, or university lecturers who have the time, can provide mentoring assistance to teachers in their early years in the profession to hopefully keep them in the workforce for longer. Teaching graduates in Western Australia received a unilateral pay rise recently from the government that, by a factor of a few hundred dollars, makes them the second-best paid graduate teachers in Australia. In comparison with other professionals, teaching graduates are some of the best paid after graduating from university. However, that is not enough. The government wants to ensure that they receive mentoring assistance through this program, which is why it is spending $11 million. Research shows that providing this sort of support is one of the most important things that can be done to keep teachers in the workforce for longer. Science and technology is very important in Western Australia, and the government wants to ensure that the state has a workforce for the long term, which is why this program has been implemented.
TEACHERS — PEER AND MENTOR SUPPORT
I refer to the report recently released by the Australian Education Union that states that 28.2 per cent of teachers surveyed identified a lack of peer and mentor support as one of their top concerns. What is the Carpenter government doing to address these concerns? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Southern River for the question. We value our teaching workforce and recognise that teaching is often a very difficult occupation, especially for teachers in their early years of teaching. Today the government launched an $11 million mentoring program, with the assistance of the University of Western Australia and its new Centre for Learning Technology—which I opened this afternoon—that will provide mentoring assistance for first and second-year science and mathematics teachers around Western Australia. This initiative means that retired experienced teachers, or university lecturers who have the time, can provide mentoring assistance to teachers in their early years in the profession to hopefully keep them in the workforce for longer. Teaching graduates in Western Australia received a unilateral pay rise recently from the government that, by a factor of a few hundred dollars, makes them the second-best paid graduate teachers in Australia. In comparison with other professionals, teaching graduates are some of the best paid after graduating from university. However, that is not enough. The government wants to ensure that they receive mentoring assistance through this program, which is why it is spending $11 million. Research shows that providing this sort of support is one of the most important things that can be done to keep teachers in the workforce for longer. Science and technology is very important in Western Australia, and the government wants to ensure that the state has a workforce for the long term, which is why this program has been implemented.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Southern River for the question. We value our teaching workforce and recognise that teaching is often a very difficult occupation, especially for teachers in their early years of teaching. Today the government launched an $11 million mentoring program, with the assistance of the University of Western Australia and its new Centre for Learning Technology—which I opened this afternoon—that will provide mentoring assistance for first and second-year science and mathematics teachers around Western Australia. This initiative means that retired experienced teachers, or university lecturers who have the time, can provide mentoring assistance to teachers in their early years in the profession to hopefully keep them in the workforce for longer. Teaching graduates in Western Australia received a unilateral pay rise recently from the government that, by a factor of a few hundred dollars, makes them the second-best paid graduate teachers in Australia. In comparison with other professionals, teaching graduates are some of the best paid after graduating from university. However, that is not enough. The government wants to ensure that they receive mentoring assistance through this program, which is why it is spending $11 million. Research shows that providing this sort of support is one of the most important things that can be done to keep teachers in the workforce for longer. Science and technology is very important in Western Australia, and the government wants to ensure that the state has a workforce for the long term, which is why this program has been implemented.
I thank the member for Southern River for the question. We value our teaching workforce and recognise that teaching is often a very difficult occupation, especially for teachers in their early years of teaching. Today the government launched an $11 million mentoring program, with the assistance of the University of Western Australia and its new Centre for Learning Technology—which I opened this afternoon—that will provide mentoring assistance for first and second-year science and mathematics teachers around Western Australia. This initiative means that retired experienced teachers, or university lecturers who have the time, can provide mentoring assistance to teachers in their early years in the profession to hopefully keep them in the workforce for longer. Teaching graduates in Western Australia received a unilateral pay rise recently from the government that, by a factor of a few hundred dollars, makes them the second-best paid graduate teachers in Australia. In comparison with other professionals, teaching graduates are some of the best paid after graduating from university. However, that is not enough. The government wants to ensure that they receive mentoring assistance through this program, which is why it is spending $11 million. Research shows that providing this sort of support is one of the most important things that can be done to keep teachers in the workforce for longer. Science and technology is very important in Western Australia, and the government wants to ensure that the state has a workforce for the long term, which is why this program has been implemented.
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