“It’s incentive for our really, really good teachers to stay; to keep all of these young innovative teachers that are coming in,” Ruth says. |
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“It also gives you something to strive for. It gives you more incentive to better yourself, to do more professional development, to learn more and become better at your craft – I think it is a really good idea, they should have brought it in years ago,” she says. “It stops you being stagnant. There is a real sense of accomplishment there.” The Year 11 Coordinator, who came to teaching later in life after studying Zoology and Ecology, has been teaching at Aldridge State High School since she started her teaching career in 2009. She says she spent “a lot of hours” on her HAT application — working on it solidly every day for two weeks. “More work than I have ever done for any other application!” Ruth says. |