[Catalist] Looking for work

[tanya c]

It’s normal

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 at 10:39 pm, Yarra Korczynskyj <yarra.k at iinet.net.au>
wrote:

> God that's depressing??!
>
>
> On 12-Dec-17 8:37 PM, Leon Harris wrote:
> > Hi to all.
> > A close friend and colleague of mine is searching for work next year.
> > She is a STEM expert, and a good operator in the classroom, having
> > taught in both low socioeconomic and high socioeconomic status schools
> > for the last 7 years.
> >
> > Her subject area is Biology (having taught both Y11 and Y12 classes
> > over the past 5 years) and Maths. However, she has a couple of years
> > of a physics degree and an honours degree in biotechnology.
> >
> > She is a STEM expert, with extensive software development skills
> > (dating back to when she founded an IT database-writing company. If
> > you have seen World Firefighters Games or Mall Manager, you would know
> > some of her clients). Her programming languages iclude, Access, VBA,
> > C/C++ in an Arduino context, python (she designed, built and wrote a
> > burglar alarm to run on a Raspberry Pi in python), and BASH. She also
> > wrote software for Australia's beamline at The Photon Factory in
> > Japan, in the days before we had our own synchrotron, and has
> > reasonable Linux systems administration skills (to the level that one
> > would expect of a web developer in a LAMP environment).
> >
> > She also has presented at a number of teacher PDs, including CONSTAWA,
> > and is active in developing STEM strategies, particularly mechatronics
> > that is aimed at getting girls engaged in STEM. Her current school is
> > implementing an interactive, virtual tour of the history of the
> > school, based on a technology framework she designed.
> >
> > Quite a talent, in my opinion.
> >
> > These times are hard in schools - anecdotally mine has just received a
> > 1.7 million dollar recurrent haircut, and many others have been
> > skinned by a comparable amount. It is also a sad fact that systemic
> > (as distinct from personal) ageism and sexism are features of the
> > education system - many women find it hard to enter or return to the
> > sector after taking time off for child rearing, leading to a
> > differential penalty on our female colleagues for reproduction, a not
> > insignificant task that is essential to our society!
> >
> > So the lack of an ability to go country, all those years ago, a change
> > of education sector, and a series of contracts has meant that come
> > this year's hard times, she does not have a job this next year.
> >
> > If anyone knows of anyone who needs a smart operator, who does not
> > generate behaviour problems, who is autonomous and highly skilled,
> > please drop me a line off list.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Leon
> >
> >
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