Hale School - Design and Technology Workshop Technician
Hale School are seeking a Design and Technology Workshop Technician – This is a permanent, full-time role , term time only, commencing as soon as October 2026. Dining Hall lunches included!
We are looking for an experienced operator, could be a retired teacher or someone with trade experience. Our technician is responsible for maintaining machinery in our workshops and ordering of supplies, materials and other resources. We love problem solvers and individuals with a bit of bent for seeing solutions from multiple angles. Expect to work closely with a strong, coherent and collaborative teaching team.
If you are interested or know someone who might be, can you please pass on these details or contact Haig McGlashan - ham@hale.wa.edu.au to find out more or express your interest.
This is a national concern. I meet with 4 state Presdients yesterday and discussed this issue specifically. One of them does work for Southern Cross as a sessional lecturer and as of this year a prac supervisor and is seeing firsthand the issues. As a number of prac teachers come from the online course they come form and are spread far and wide, so communication is happening online with the supervisors. Would you believe that a number of discussions have required the prac student to use translator software to assist with the conversation - how does that work in class(?)
The Bach 'of IT' student is being categorised as a 'Technology Teacher' as their is no course directly aimed at Digital Technologies teaching. So Southern Cross (in the example I was given) under prepares, under informs and under trains them and schools are left to pick up the pieces without full details. The other bit of feedback was that the online course results in students skipping large parts of the curriculum only to do the assessment at the end (with massive assistance from AI).
At this point, I will sit back and let others comment and provide further evidence of what is happening. DATTA (nationally) will develop a response to this for governements and universities. In the meantime, I would think that schools should be cautious, especially of online delivered Masters of Teaching candidates.