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George Lilley's avatar

thanks Tom, i did not explain properly, there are about 300,000 teachers in OZ so only 1000 have been certified, most likely because they have not applied and don't think it is worth it - https://www.aitsl.edu.au/docs/default-source/certification/certification-snapshot-2022.pdf

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Tom Mahoney's avatar

Makes much more sense! Yes, I think that is the general sense. Yet rather than make the decision to withdraw the program and take teacher's degrees as enough, the program is going to be adapted to make it easier to be certified. Doesn't seem to make much sense.

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George Lilley's avatar

gr8 idea for schools to address this in their next meetings. Wondering how the promotion of certification via HALT has go into the recommendations, I don't think there are many classroom teachers putting that forward! Only 1000 teachers out 300,000 applying for that certification since 2012 should say enough.

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Tom Mahoney's avatar

300,000 applications! That is wild. Where did you get that number from?

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Sharn's avatar

Well said 100%

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