Page 344 - Week 01 - Thursday, 14 February 2019
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(6) What qualifications are required for teaching a language in an ACT government school.
(7) Do all teachers of languages have the appropriate qualifications; if not, how many do not and why not.
(8) For each teacher identified in part (1)(a) to (c), what languages (a) have an appropriately qualified teacher delivering language classes (b) do not have appropriately qualified people teaching them and in how many schools does this apply.
Ms Berry: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The overall number of languages teachers is recorded in the Directorate’s annual Languages Census. The decision on the allocation of teachers to classes and the basis on which they are employed is a school based decision. The Directorate does not collect this data centrally.
|
Primary Schools |
P-10 Schools |
High Schools |
Colleges | |
|
Number of Languages Teachers |
79 |
48 |
43 |
48 |
(2)
|
Primary Schools |
P-10 Schools |
High Schools |
Colleges | |
|
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures and Languages |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
AUSLAN |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Chinese |
11 |
5 |
3 |
13 |
|
French |
15 |
29 |
15 |
7 |
|
German |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
|
Hindi |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
Indonesian |
17 |
7 |
5 |
3 |
|
Italian |
11 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
|
Japanese |
25 |
17 |
15 |
7 |
|
Korean |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
|
Latin |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Spanish |
6 |
4 |
3 |
5 |
(3) The number of teachers who teach across more than one school is not recorded centrally by the Directorate, these arrangements are made at a school level and exist on a number of sites.
(4) The number of hours per teacher is determined at a school level, and is not able to be extrapolated from data held by the Directorate. All ACT government schools are required to provide at least one language program in one of eight priority languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean). Each year, from year three to six, schools are required to provide students with a minimum of 60 minutes per week of languages education. In years seven and eight, schools are required to provide students with a minimum of 150 minutes per week.
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