We continue to have a teaching shortage in Queensland – see the stats below… And I’ve got some big suggestions for how the Queensland Department of Education can encourage and enable people to become teachers.

Specifically, people like me, who already have degrees and decades of work experience. These are career-changers who want to become mature-aged student teachers.

So I’m going to talk about how long postgraduate students need to study at university before they get into Queensland classrooms.

For full disclosure, I recently submitted a written piece similar to this as a policy critique for assessment, as part of my Master of Teaching (Secondary). And I got a surprisingly high mark, given that I’m criticising the fundamental structure of the degree!