About Us

Aussie Educator comes from a period when we could not find a wide range of education information quickly and easily. It became very frustrating.
We have a combined period of almost 70 years teaching as classroom practitioners, executives, principal, librarian, casual and Relief from Face to Face teacher. In all these situations, we were often in the difficult position of not knowing what was happening in other states, or even how to find out.
Additionally, we were in schools with extensive English as a Second Language requirements, worked with classes for children with disabilities and classes for students who were gifted. Each became a learning experience that, in many cases, required us to start ‘from scratch’ in terms of where to find both general and specific information to make us as effective as possible.
This was particularly telling when we were in schools where there was a high student turnover, with travel interstate and often internationally, in both directions, requiring us to provide information about enrolment, levels, programs and requirements.
With the advent of computers [we began using computers in schools in the early 1980s] and the internet, the option was available to find systemic information as well as information from other sources that would help us to achieve our goals.
This site attempts to remedy the situation we faced. We only wish something similar had existed when we were still in schools.