Class crisis: Staff teaching lessons they don't understand
Principals are being forced to assign classes to teachers completely unfamiliar with the subject, bring teachers out of retirement and outsource lessons to teachers on the other end of a TV screen. In classrooms across the state English teachers are teaching foreign languages they do not understand, PE teachers are teaching maths and history teachers are teaching agriculture, as principals struggle to find qualified teachers for every class. At Tamworth High School an English teacher teaches French, the dance teacher teaches technologies subjects and a PE teacher teaches maths. The school...
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