[Offtopic] Points to consider including in VIT Review Response

[Stephen Digby]

True, Jim.
Agree.
VERB should be run and funded by voluntary membership, but if it performs regulatory functions for the government, it should get
some government funding and have a government rep.
Basic argument against current setup is that it has been created and run as a government organisation with government objectives
dominating.

Rebuild it as a professional institute with voluntary membership and real membership involvement in decision-making where it
provides advantages of membership and see what happens....

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Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Points to consider including in VIT Review Response

At 10:58 AM 26/08/2007, you wrote:...
>Create new structures:
>    * VERB - Victorian educational Regulatory
> Board: Registration of Teachers, Approves and  accredits pre-service 
>teacher education  courses, Misconduct Investigations. Run by  
>government. Paid from general revenue.
>    * VEI- Victorian Educational Institute: 
> Promotion of the profession, Works with  teachers. Paid from voluntary 
>membership. Run  by members elected by membership.
Hello Stephen -

Just for the info for the the few of us non-teachers here - is there a professional association for teachers along the lines on the
Institution of Engineers Australia, the Royal Australian Institue of Architects, the AMA etc? 
Even though I've worked in schools for about 10 years I don't recall hearing or seeing anything about such an organisation.

The ones I mentioned are run by practitioners of the professions, and at least in the case of Engineers,  set the requirements for
accreditation to work as an engineer (and call yourself 'engineer') and hence set the fields of study to be satisfactorily completed
at a tertiary level, lobby the various governments on behalf of engineers, run PD sessions (IEAust for example requires 30 hours of
PD a year or hand back your membership and the right to put MIEAust after your name.) If there is not such a body for teachers there
should be imho.

rgds
Jim (ex MIEAust)



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