The powerful Australian Education Union faces internal dissent over its opposition to Victoria’s mandate for public schools to introduce structured phonics.
Teachers are threatening to rip up their memberships of the powerful education union after it opposed the Victorian government’s mandated shift to structured phonics in public schools.to teach reading to all prep to grade 2 students – was described by one classroom professional as “scandalous and outrageous”.The union accused Deputy Premier and Education Minister Ben Carroll of lacking respect for the profession and of not understanding the current curriculum and pedagogy.
Another teacher described the union’s position as “unproductive”. “I know many folks in the literacy community who were appalled and horrified ,” registered teacher Jackie Nieuwenhuizen toldNieuwenhuizen, a literacy support lead at a secondary school, formerly worked as a literacy specialist in private practice.
“The union needs to make sure that it is representing its members; otherwise it will find that it has fewer members,” Dobson said. Dobson said the union was continuing to debate a subject when research evidence supporting the phonics method was “pretty one-sided”. “It was really discouraging, and actually kind of hurtful to the work myself and so many other educators have done in this area,” he said of the statement.
She lashed the union’s “relentless attacks” against an improved education system, the failure to represent teachers and “shortsightedness in terms of scientific evidence”.on June 13 that all government schools would employ the explicit teaching model from next year, with Victoria among the last of the states and territories to adopt the change.
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