Asking questions of candidates
Teaching is one of the most respected professions - when teachers speak up, people listen!
Candidate forums are a great opportunity to promote teaching and education priorities.
Teaching is one of the most respected professions - when teachers speak up, people listen!
Candidate forums are a great opportunity to promote teaching and education priorities.
It’s a good idea to start your questions with “As a teacher...”
Sample questions
- Will your party do about charter schools?
- As a teacher, I believe schools are the natural centre of the community. Will your party make secondary schools service hubs for the community?
- As a teacher, I know how hard it is to get round and spend time with each student. Will your party provide more teachers to reduce class sizes in secondary schools?
- I want to do the absolute best for my students and that means being resourced properly to do that. Will your party increase education funding?
- Will your party properly resource high quality and relevant professional development for every teacher, so we can be as effective as possible?
- As a teacher, I spend too much time ticking boxes and dealing with red tape. What will your party do to allow teachers to focus more on each individual child?
At a meet the candidate event, find out which parties share our priorities:
- Real community engagement
- Will review Tomorrow’s Schools
- Public schools not charter schools
- Schools as community hubs
- Will decrease class sizes
- Increase per-student funding
- Increase funding for students with greatest need
- Real increases to secondary teacher salaries
- Access to professional learning and development for all teachers
- Reduce unproductive workload
Download and print the "Candidate report card" to log and share your answers.