[Catalist] Looking for work

[tanya c]

Sorry to hear that graham. Look after yourself too and hope things turn
around for you

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 at 10:42 pm, Graham McMahon <gpmcmahon1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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