The state government has signed the state’s first Quality Teaching Declaration.
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The document is a formal statement resulting from a recent education workforce roundtable.
It commits the government to increasing educational outcomes, raising the status of the teaching profession, and ensuring a skilled future workforce.
Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff said the employment of 250 more teacher over this term of government was a foundation of the declaration.
“We know from research that the quality of teaching has the biggest in-school influence on student outcomes, and this declaration … will improve teacher quality and our commitment to increase the education workforce by an additional 358 staff,” he said.