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Recommendations
Recommendation 1 45
The committee recommends that efforts be made to give the
national benchmark tests more credibility and usefulness as teaching
instruments.
Recommendation 2 64
The committee recommends that the Government consider ways of
restructuring teacher training courses so as to encourage and require aspiring
secondary teachers to commence their studies in arts, science and other
relevant disciplines before undertaking specific studies in education by degree
or diploma.
Recommendation 3 64
The committee recommends that schools and school systems take
particular measures to improve teacher professional development in mathematics.
Recommendation 4 64
The committee recommends that the Minister take up with
Universities Australia the need for administrative changes of a
cross-disciplinary nature so as to allow schools and faculties of education to
draw on expertise elsewhere in the university for the purposes of giving
specialist tuition to trainee teachers in their teaching discipline.
Recommendation 5 64
The committee recommends that the Minister take up with
Universities Australia the need to encourage a more rigorous and evidence-based
approach to the preparation of trainee teachers in regard to literacy and
mathematics method.
Recommendation 6 105
The committee therefore recommends the Government and MCEETYA
work expeditiously toward the negotiation of a comparable Year 12 curriculum
that will embrace the principle of common standards and expectations of
achievement at designated levels of study, and agreed common standards of
assessment, including a significant component of external examination.
Recommendation 7 122
That the Government takes steps to improve the remuneration of
teachers so as to raise the profession's entry standards and retention rates by
providing incentives.
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