IEU-QNT Assistant Secretary/Treasurer Paul Giles writes regarding the negative impact on the profession when educators who either are non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) and/or other educators who don’t reflect the norm of Australian society (for whatever reason) are overlooked, ignored and/or marginalised within our education system.
A recent release from the Media Centre for Educational Research Australia (MCERA) entitled Bridging the Divide: Addressing Barriers Faced by Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers in Australia’s TESOL sector drew on a study from Monash University regarding the deleterious consequences being experienced by NNESTs in Australia’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) sector.
