[Catalist] Looking for work

[Graham McMahon]

Yup. I'm in the same boat. 30 years teaching, BSc DipEd MEd PhD and looking
for a job...

On 12 Dec 2017 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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