What it's like being a High School Teacher from Australia Part 1 

Hey there, thanks for the kind words! I think teaching is an incredible job and if you're passionate about it I think it's a great career. It is a big job teaching full time and creating content, but if it can even help another single teacher it's all worth it.

Oh so exciting! Welcome to the team Erica! What country did you get your degree in? Let me know if there are any topics of interest specifically you have. Welcome to the channel :)

Thats awesome! History and Geo are such cool subjects, I wish I paid more attention during them when I was in high school haha (I even went to school in NSW). Good luck and let me know if there's anything you think I could make a video about that would help.

@@markjodonohue thank you so much! yea so interesting I loved them, I think what I am most stressed about is finding work so possibly a video on finding temp work and surviving through that phase of temps and moving into permanency.. am definitely stressing about work after my degree haha.

I reckon you'll find it surprisingly easy to get a job with your subject areas. In my school, English and HASS (SOSE in NSW?) are always in big demand. Honestly, I'm not the right person to make a video about that.. I got very lucky and got a job straight after my final prac, so never had to do supply work before my first contract.. Sorry I can't be of help in that regard! Totally empathise with your stress about getting a job though. On the bright side though, supply work pays really well and gives you much needed freedom from marking/reporting, obviously it comes with it's own downsides, but plenty of upside there. In any case my best advice is to put your best foot forward on your pracs, go above and beyond to help and support your supervising teacher, and demonstrate that you'd be a valuable member of their team. Basically, make it so you're asked if you can work there when you graduate (super hard work though, especially for no pay!!)

@@markjodonohue It's called HSIE in NSW but yea the same thing haha.. yeah I definitely will do that! It seems like that's the best way to go about it with my most pracs and work experience situations is just to work your ass off and make them love you. I will be very appreciative of any opportunity I can get my hands on as I know how hard they can be to come by. I won't be coming into the workforce until another 6.5-7 yrs though so a lot could change from now to then! Will just need to stay on top of what is happening in the community.

Oh cool! How long have you been tutoring for?

Hey there, I'm not very experienced in the exchange teacher program or VISAs for teachers or anything like that. If you're already at a school or in the education system, it would likely be best to contact your region/head office to see if they can give you more info. Otherwise, google is probably your best friend. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!

Hey mate welcome to the channel! Well I can only speak from my own experience, but typically schools run from 8:30am to 3:00pm with approximately 4.5-5 hours of class time a day. Some schools do only 4 longer lessons (like mine, 70 mins each) but others do 8 shorter lessons of about 40 minutes. What’s it’s like in the UK?

@@markjodonohue ah nice, cheers for the reply mate, yeah I guess schools are similar here, mine is 6x50min lessons a day, in other schools some are 5x60min or as you say longer or shorter. For me out of 30 lessons a week I have about 25 lessons teaching, due to shortages cover teaching requirements can be quite demanding, I often get pulled to cover lessons, varies a bit by school no doubt. Student behaviour is a bit of a pain currently, how’s that in aus these days?

Mate it’s getting out of hand here as well. Relatively speaking my school had pretty good behaviour standards (despite being in a challenging zone/catchment) but even we’re seeing a big rise in behaviour issues. Do you get pulled to cover classes which reduces your non contact time? We’re lucky to have strict rules (government school) where we’re guaranteed our NCT (or get it paid back in later weeks). Are you private? Also feel free to join the discord (link in my channel page) where we can have a more informal chat about it all!

Hey JG! That's so awesome that you want to become a teacher so early in life! I'm not actually sure of the answer to your question, but I'd imagine you simply need an ATAR high enough for studying Education at Uni, but I think this requires some sort of General English or above? Not 100% sure sorry!

Hi Hereisdiki! I’m not an expert on those matters, but I believe that as long as you have a qualification from a reputable university than you should be able to teach in Australia! Might be worth doing some research to double check though.

Hi Akar, yes of course! Passionate teachers of all nationalities are welcome. I'm unsure about the VISA process, but we're a very multicultural society so you'd be very welcome. Glad you liked the video :)

Glad to hear it! Teaching in Australia is awesome, glad to hear you find the math easy :)

Hey Jack! Our pay is actually really good. Our pay is available online to view if you look up Queensland teacher salary schedule you can find the various bands there. I'm on approx. $95k at my level. I can't speak of all of Australia, but the region I'm in is pretty great to teach in. Its more important to find a school with a supportive admin team though imo. That can really make a big difference when it comes to behaviour management.

@@markjodonohue thanks for the reply Mark, I’m doing my undergrad at the minute and was thinking of pursuing teaching postgrad. Always keen to hear from people in the field, as I’ve been thinking Australia is one of the places I would like to relocate to at some stage.

@@jackbyrne5394 Yeah mate would definitely recommend it. Not only for the great teaching conditions, but our lifestyle is pretty great!

We sure do, but it’s opt-in so not all students do it.

Sweet poem dude, needs more rhymes though.

I can’t tell if your being mean or not

Which aspects do you find unrealistic?

We love Rugby over here in Australia! If it helps you come to peace with it, we also take any concussion symptoms very seriously and there’s rigorous return to play protocol.

​@@markjodonohue That's good, but these protocols are like a fart in the wind. CTE is (primarily) caused by subconcussive hits. In other words, you have a concussion, but without the obvious symptoms. You'll have one very time you get your bell rung, which in Rugby would be on a daily basis. Rugby leads the world in CTE cases (even surpassing wankee football and hockey). You can also get these in football, but they are quite rare since not all players use their head to hit the ball.

Yeah I definitely appreciate and share your concerns. I honestly don't know enough about the medicine aspect, all I know is what I'm told to do by the training we've received from the NRL. I'll definitely keep your comments in mind though over the next few years, it's going to be an interesting phase of the game I suspect.