The teachers at Chifley College in Shalvey are embracing a new way of learning.
It is the first day of the school year at Chifley College at Shalvey near Mount Druitt, the temperature is above 30 degrees outside and veteran English teacher Amy Krisenthal is addressing her new class. The message is not something she would have uttered when she started teaching 16 years ago.
The findings come after teaching graduates have long complained how their degrees have been lacking in practical classroom skills, withKrisenthal attended the selective school Hornsby Girls High, completed teaching practicums in similarly middle-class areas before arriving at Shalvey on the western fringes of Sydney as part of a teaching scholarship. It stipulated she must work at the school for three years.
”Sometimes when people hear classroom management they think of the teacher going into a room and shouting at kids and kids sitting in silence,” Krisenthal said. Year 10 student and vice-captain Jeremiah Sosaiete Ah Young, 15, named Tom McCulloch as his favourite teacher. Why? McCulloch, a former Socceroo and PDHPE teacher runs a tight ship: the lessons are structured and students prone to joking around are told to sit at the front.
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