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Hi Maryann, absolutely. It's one of the many issues we are seeing from the critical shortage of Technologies teachers. At the end of 2019 we published our
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Teacher Shortage Report</a>, and we have lobbied the Ministers for Education & Higher Education, The DET's School Education Reform and Workforce Strategy units and the STEM Education Ambassador. We're also hoping to get a time to talk to VIT - watch this space!
You can read our letters here: - <a href="https://www.datta.vic.edu.au/content/technologies-teacher-shortage-crisis">https://www.datta.vic.edu.au/content/technologies-teacher-shortage-crisis</a>. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We were successful in getting press coverage about the OH&S issues caused by the teacher shortage in the
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</span><a href="https://educationhq.com/news/national-education-crisis-threatens-safety-of-students-65733/" title="https://educationhq.com/news/national-education-crisis-threatens-safety-of-students-65733/" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Education
HQ</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are also part of the campaign
to protest the loss of the Bachelor of Technology Education course at La Trobe, which was raised last week in Parliament. We have been lobbying Universities to include a Design & Technologies method on their Masters of Secondary Education (which thankfully
Swinburne and ACU now have). We successfully raised some funds to set up a <i>Design Education Sprint</i> for Engineering, Fashion and Industrial Design Undergrads later in 2021, and we hope this will encourage them to consider a career in teaching.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As you've noted, there are a lot of teachers from other learning areas get pulled in to deliver the D&T curriculum. (Almost 90% of schools surveyed have
been forced to do this as they failed to recruit a D&T teacher for the role). This is why we have established our Teaching Design Masterclasses as a way to help teachers deliver D&T in an engaging and relevant way, without the need to use tools and equipment.
(And we have managed to attract funding to allow us to run it free for 10 people for 3 years.) It's a short-term solution - our priority is to get more properly qualified or trained D&T teachers coming through, but we hope this can support enough teachers
to keep our learning area alive until we see proper intervention to address the issue.</span></div>
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work in really challenging circumstances, and everyone at DATTA Vic is committed to doing whatever we can to help.</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 23 February 2021 8:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> destech@edulists.com.au <destech@edulists.com.au><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Design and Technology] destech Digest, Vol 189, Issue 4</font>
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<div>The link also says that only qualified Technology teachers can undertake the course which from my experience is a test to prove to the department that you can use the machines safely.</div>
<div>Schools are sending unqualified teachers to the course and seem to be allowed to? I had to give them a copy of my qualifications before I undertook the course. The department does not seem to be policing this at the moment, or the providers dont seem to
be policing it. I am worried for those who are unqualified and who are in the unfortunate situation of a student having an accident.</div>
<div>Has DATTA approached the department about this?</div>
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