New research on out-of-field maths teaching in 48 schools comes as the department quietly axed a highly rated maths retraining program.
Sports and science teachers are being assigned to teach high school mathematics, including some at the highest HSC levels, as principals continue to struggle with staff shortages in core areas, a new study has revealed.
Sydney University educational psychology professor Helen Watt led a study of 48 public high schools across NSW, surveying 314 teachers and school leaders in 2023. Watt said more advantaged schools can attract qualified teachers, which means schools with “fewer resources become residualised, and are less able to compete”.
Watt said girls can end up “opting down or out of maths due to lower self-confidence than their achievement warrants”.“Fresh graduate teachers alone cannot defuse the crisis,” their report said, warning the “inequitable situation is severe in outer-suburban, low SES and regional schools”.
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