Teaching WA
- Becoming a teacher
- Working in a public school
- Teaching in a public school
- Remote Teaching Service
- Rural/country schools
- Teachers' stories
- Country Teaching Program
- Rural Teaching Program for student teachers
- Teacher Flying Squad
- Aboriginal education
- Financial assistance for rural and remote teachers
- Return to the country
- Myths of country life
- Tips for moving to the country
- Focus on Wheatbelt Education Region
- Focus on Kimberley Education region
- Focus on Pilbara Education Region
- Focus on Goldfields Education Region
- Focus on Midwest Education Region
- Metropolitan schools
- Salaries and teaching levels
- Leave and entitlements
- Benefits and support
- Eligibility to teach in a public school
- Entry and orientation
- Other careers in public schools
- Personal stories
- Current public school teachers and administrators
- Overseas teachers
- WA teachers not working in public schools
- Interstate teachers
Focus on Midwest Education Region
Location
The Mid West extends from Dandaragan in the south to Exmouth in the north, Meekatharra in the north east, and to Sandstone in the east. It covers an area between 500,000 and 600,000 square kilometres (larger than Victoria), and serves communities as diverse as the City of Geraldton, wheat belt areas, fishing centres, mining communities and remote towns and settlements.
More than 50,000 people live in the Midwest Education Region, of whom around 10,000 are students attending schools. Nearly 20 per cent of the school population are Aboriginal.
The Midwest Education Region nearly matches the boundary of Yamaji country. Yamaji (or Yamatji) is the collective name for Aboriginal people, country, and region of the Murchison and Gascoyne areas.
The region comprises nineteen local government authorities including the City of Geraldton which is the region’s major commercial, administrative and service centre.
