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Iiatej_2_2015, David Ellis
Iiatej_2_2015, David Ellis
David Ellis
Professional teacher association journal for the NSW Institute of Industrial Arts Technology Education (IIATE)
Iiatej_1_2014, David Ellis
Iiatej_1_2014, David Ellis
David Ellis
Professional teacher association journal for the NSW Institute of Industrial Arts Technology Education (IIATE)
Teachers For The Future: An Unmet Need, David Lynch
Teachers For The Future: An Unmet Need, David Lynch
David Lynch
In 2000 Central Queensland University conducted the first major review and redevelopment of its teacher education programs. Consequently the Bachelor of Learning Management (or BLM) came into being. A central premise of the BLM was the concept of graduate teachers having a ‘futures orientation’. In this article the results of a study into the perceptions of mentors and graduate teachers, with respect to a futures orientation, are reported.
Examining The Bachelor Of Education: Mentor's Perceptions Of Student/Teacher Performance, David Lynch, Tony Yeigh
Examining The Bachelor Of Education: Mentor's Perceptions Of Student/Teacher Performance, David Lynch, Tony Yeigh
David Lynch
Teacher education in Australia has been the subject of numerous reviews over recent decades. Each report has highlighted the problematic nature of the current model of teacher education in Australia. In this chapter mentor attitudes to the Bachelor of Education program are examined for points of reference.
The Challenge Of Changing Teacher Education, David Lynch, Richard Smith
The Challenge Of Changing Teacher Education, David Lynch, Richard Smith
David Lynch
This article is about the challenges of changing teacher education in Australia. While the ‘problems’ of teacher education have been well documented for over 30 years in the literature, they constantly re-emerge in reports and academic papers globally. This chapter unravels some of the real politik that confront change agents. The examples are drawn from both New South Wales and the Australian government levels.
Teacher Education In Australia : Investigations Into Programming, Practicum And Partnership, David Lynch, Tony Yeigh
Teacher Education In Australia : Investigations Into Programming, Practicum And Partnership, David Lynch, Tony Yeigh
David Lynch
In the last decade in Australia teacher education has undergone numerous critical reviews, yet little on the teacher education front appears to have changed. Related to this, the teaching profession’s struggles to cope with a changing world have been publicly documented and an increasing push for improved school outcomes from Australian governments, at both the state and federal level, appear as regular pieces in the national press. This forms a complex situation involving competing concerns, and raises questions concerning what to make of the situation and how to move teacher education forward in Australia. This book seeks to answer these …
A Study Of Innovation In Teacher Education, David Lynch, Richard Smith
A Study Of Innovation In Teacher Education, David Lynch, Richard Smith
David Lynch
This chapter reviews three studies of an innovative teacher education program (Bachelor of Learning Management, BLM) for implications about how to proceed with pre-service teacher education. It concludes some researched-based propositions for improving the learning success of students in formal learning settings.
Issues In Contemporary Teaching: Volume 1, David Lynch, Bruce A. Knight
Issues In Contemporary Teaching: Volume 1, David Lynch, Bruce A. Knight
David Lynch
This book is a collection of essays that focus on issues that are informing the work of the contemporary teacher. While somewhat broad in scope, the book provides the reader with a snap-shot of research endeavors that are informing teacher work. Essentially the book examines the changing nature of teacher work, including capabilities for the information age, the changing curriculum, new understandings about the brain, the diverse range of learners needs in inclusive classrooms and enhancing the mental health and well-being of students.
Rethinking Teacher Education: Teacher Education In The Knowledge Age, David Lynch, Richard Smith
Rethinking Teacher Education: Teacher Education In The Knowledge Age, David Lynch, Richard Smith
David Lynch
This book, takes our ideas about teaching and teacher education a step further beyond our previously published ideas about teaching and teacher education . In writing the book we have a specific intent: to rethink teacher education for the benefit of students and their communities and the teaching profession. We aim to help people create new mindsets and build knowledge about what is meant by ‘to teach’ and ‘to learn’ in the 2000s; to encourage teachers and teacher educators to move past what they presently believe pedagogical work to be, and to enable teaching to take its place increasingly within …
The Rise Of The Learning Manager: Changing Teacher Education, Richard Smith, David Lynch
The Rise Of The Learning Manager: Changing Teacher Education, Richard Smith, David Lynch
David Lynch
Learning Management is a disruptive innovation. It intends to explore and develop alternative pre-service and in turn practicing teacher arrangements that respond to the needs of education systems. These constituencies include policymakers, schools and other learning institutions, the teaching professions and above all, students and their communities who are marginalized without school and other education outcomes. Learning Management is about an alternative choice in the way in which ‘teaching’ gets done.