Download - Preparing Educators - Prof Bob Conway
Preparing educators for the brave new world of curricula, standards, accreditation and even
teaching.
Prof Bob ConwayDean of EducationFlinders University
Key concerns from CEASA members
• Capacity for change• Overload• Reduction in goodwill• Time constraints in change• Taking more time from teaching• Curriculum from above• Individual change rates verses systems change• Lack of PL and/or PD to understand changes• Accountability measures and pay• Non-engagement of teachers during the change process leads to
difficulty to be convinced and positive about implementing them.
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What educational change seems like for many teachers
Issues for Teacher Education
• New national standards for Teacher Education awards on what programs must contain
• Minimum training time of 2 years (can be taught in 1.5 years)
• New national registration of teachers on graduation based on Graduate Standards of AITSL
• New mandatory days for Professional Experience
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Professional Experience – a Critical components for teacher education
• Increased enrolments in Teacher Education across the state
• Placements are critical but critically short in supply
• Rethink how we find places and how schools support the teachers of the future
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What are the constraints?
ACARA– Australian Curriculum and how it relates to state
curricula? How it will become a curriculum rather than a set of single individual subject curriculums (sic)• Cross curriculum priorities/general capabilities in F-10• Intersection with the EYLF• Senior Years model – Years 11-12• Resources and whether they will be shared (Scootle.edu.au)
– NAPLAN and its effects on teaching and learning priorities
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Australian Curriculum – just add a local nozzle?
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What are the constraints?ACARA
– Australian Curriculum and how it relates to state curricula? How it will become a curriculum rather than a set of single individual subject curriculums (sic)• Cross curriculum priorities/general capabilities in F-10• Intersection with the EYLF• Senior Years model – Years 11-12• Resources and whether they will be shared (Scootle.edu.au)
– NAPLAN and its effects on teaching and learning priorities
AITSL– Teacher and Principal standards – Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework as a measure of
performance accountability and pay(??)
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How do we get to be heard as individuals in the world of curriculum change, changing accountability in terms of performance, and job expectations?
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What can we do?
Engage teachers, schools and systems:– Throughout the process of implementing the Australian Curriculum
with consistent updates – SA is stronger at this than some states
– In discussions about the progression from AITSL standards to measurable and enforceable progression (pay?) levels
– Use PD days effectively across schools rather than isolated individual teacher activities
– Share resources, ideas and strategies and not reinvent the wheel (ie. not just Scootle, but all resources websites)
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Sometimes it all seems like this.
Don’t give up as your schools and students need you!!
Thank you!
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