Adam Voigt
Adam Voigt is a former principal and founder and CEO of Real Schools.
Opinion
High school
Expelling problem students sounds impressive. But all it does is pass the buck
In kicking the can of responsibility for the Yarra Valley Grammar students who ranked their female classmates to another school, parents are missing the point.
- by Adam Voigt
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Opinion
Private schools
Telling students they’re ‘elite’ fails them, their school and our society
There is a grave danger when an overprivileged individual leverages the network of an exclusive school to rise effortlessly into a senior position.
- by Adam Voigt
Opinion
Education
Teachers now have the legal right to switch off, but will parents let them?
Teachers are at the centre of a plan to introduce laws that prevent workers being contacted out of office hours. But are we trying to solve the wrong problem?
- by Adam Voigt
Opinion
School funding
Pitting us against each other is no way to improve our crumbling school system
No other government would subject parents to a school system that forces them to consider their kids as customers. And you know what? No other country does.
- by Adam Voigt
Opinion
Education
Noise, chaos and disengagement: I was wrong about open-plan classrooms
I was the inaugural principal of a school built for co-teaching, a model where two teachers worked together with around 50 students. Then the trouble began. Poor behaviour soared, students fell through the cracks, the noise was too much.
- by Adam Voigt
Opinion
Education
Unisex school toilets aren’t the bogeyman you think they are
Instead of the classic boys and girls bathrooms, a Victorian primary school has opted for unisex toilets. But is this the education hill we should die on?
- by Adam Voigt
Opinion
Teaching
New teachers can’t control their classrooms, but they’re not to blame
We’re running out of teachers and constantly shouting at them isn’t helping.
- by Adam Voigt
Opinion
Schools
School uniforms and rules about hair colour are a waste of time
Parents and schools squabbling over the colour of a student’s hair is as edifying as two toddlers scrapping over which coloured sippy cup they want.
- by Adam Voigt
Opinion
Teaching
Why male teachers are dropping out of primary school
I’m a primary school teacher by trade who began my career in early childhood. And I’m really proud of that. But on more than one occasion, I lied about my job, knowing it was a conversational pothole.
- by Adam Voigt
Opinion
AI
Schools right now face a choice - fight the wave of ChatGPT, or surf it
So impossible will it be in the artificial intelligence future for any teacher to determine the integrity of any student’s learning when not in their direct supervision, that the very formula for educating them will be forced to change. The entire model of schooling may be flipped on its head.
- by Adam Voigt
Opinion
Education
Teacher crisis won’t resolve until we end game of political football
You can’t separate the teacher shortage crisis from what’s become known as ‘the funding wars’ in education.
- by Adam Voigt