I’ve just come home from this morning’s stopwork meeting organised by the NSW Teachers Federation.
Read more about the Teachers Federation Staffing, Standards and Salaries campaign here.
The meeting finished half an hour ago, but I am resisting the urge to use the time to finish off some school work…not just because I think it is important for teachers to ‘stay true’ to the stopwork by, well, stopping work, but also because I am so burned out with school work right now that an imposed 2 hour break is a welcome relief.
Over the past couple of weeks my blog has been neglected, emails have gone unread, and I haven’t even been opening Twitter. No comment from me about Barack Obama’s historic win in the US election. No comment (still) about the proposed National Curriculum, and (perhaps worst) no reflection on my teaching or engagement in professional learning.
So, while filling up on petrol that had nearly run dry because I’ve had no time to fill the car, and after picking up some take away breakfast because I had run out of time and skipped mine earlier in the morning, I decided to use the rest of my stopwork time to write this post.
A little bit of a cheat of course, because as far as I’m concerned blogging = professional learning, which = work! But the school workload atm is so depressingly huge that I’m prepared to cheat on this…until reports are finished at the end of this week, I don’t know if I’ll get the chance to blog again…
Kelli McGraw 