Remote learning, a shake-up of the standard school day and four-day weeks for teachers could better prepare teenagers for the outside world, while dealing with worsening teacher shortages.
Senior students learning from home, four-day weeks for teachers and a shake-up of standard 9am to 3.30pm school days are among the radical solutions being touted to better prepare young people for the outside world and deal with worsening teacher shortages.
Sacred Heart College in Geelong will introduce an experimental timetable next year that aims to encourage greater student independence.Victorian public schools have one of the longest school days of all OECD countries, with the average 6½ hours compared to a maximum of five hours in Finland and Estonia, which both outperform Australia in international PISA rankings.
“Principals need more flexibility to manage the crisis and more guidance from the department to enable innovation to deal with it,” he said. Melissa Riley, deputy principal of pedagogy, learning, design and innovation, said while it could also assist with staffing, the program was introduced to teach students to be more self-sufficient and adaptable.“It does seem radical, but it’s not,” she said. “I think that it’s just taken something like COVID for us to really realise that our young people are much more capable than we give them credit for.
Dale Pearce, principal of Bendigo Senior Secondary College, said the public school had considered flexible timetabling options but legal and industrial obligations were a major obstacle.Pearce said flexible hours could suit many students, teachers and families but as a regional school, logistics including public transport needed to be considered.
They said flexible learning should be implemented in early high school and then expanded in senior years so students could explore their learning needs at a younger age.
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