Farewell

Associate Professor Margaret Brooks departs UNE on 12 September 2023. Margaret was an integral part of the Early Childhood team and will go on to pursue her dreams in further international work. We wish Margaret luck and enjoyment in her new endeavours.

Congratulations

Jill Fielding, Saidat Adenjii, Pep Baker

• Winners of the AAMT (Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Inc) Award for Mathematics Education Research Group.

Rachael Adlington, Accreditation Coordinator, Marg Rogers and Casey Mainsbridge

• The Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary) is now accredited

Good News Stories

Professional Experience Supervising Teacher feedback:

I will just add that we are so incredibly fortunate to have Lisa here as a teacher at The Knox School. Her passion, knowledge and kindness are such incredible personal attributes and our students and teachers are better for having her in our school. It has been so wonderful being a part of the process throughout the placement and the professional conversations and questions we discuss openly are a highlight in my day.

A/Principal feedback of one of our students now a staff member in ACT:

So incredibly fortunate to have xxx as a teacher in our school. Kudos to UNE – producing high quality graduate teachers

Tenders won from the Victorian Department of Education or the Academy for Teaching and Leadership enable the School of Education to maintain the The Michelle Bannister-Tyrrell Memorial Research Scholarship, in honour of Michelle, a dear colleague of many of ours. Michelle sadly passed away on 3 September 2020 of Motor Neurone Disease, way too young. A Senior Lecturer in Gifted and Talented, Michelle left behind her husband, Anthony, two sons and grandchildren.

Successful recipients of $4000 Scholarships to support Early Career Researchers (including their mentors) in the School of Education are:

·         Sally Larsen and Emma Row: Longitudinal patterns of school socioeconomic segregation in regional and remote NSW

·         Cat Volpe, Adele Nye and Suzanne Macqueen: Primary and Secondary History and Geography Teacher education: Approaches in Australian Universities

School Unit Evaluation recipients:

• Fiona McDonald (and team) – EDIT124 – ICT Across the Curriculum (External)
• Stoo Sepp (and team) – EDIT426 – Introduction to Learning with Technology (External)
• Martin Levins (and team) – EDIT502  – ICT in Education (External)
• Stafford Cameron (and team) – EDLT500 AND EDUC540 – Planning for Effective Learning (External); Classroom Management and Research: Online PrEx 10 days (External)
• Bing Ngu (and team) – EDME394 – Senior Secondary Mathematics Education 11-12 (External)
• Kristy O’Neill (and team) – EDPE150 – Sociocultural Foundations of Health and Physical Education (External)
• Brendan Jacobs (and team) – EDSE101 – Selected School Science Topics (External)
• Frances Quinn (and team) – EDSE312 – Primary Environmental Science and Technology for Sustainability (External)
• Nadya Rizk (and team) – EDSE359 – Teaching Primary Science and Technology (External)
• Genevieve Thraves (and team) – EDSP102 – The Twice Exceptional Student (External)
• Sarah Oluk (and team) – EDUC306 – Teaching Development 3: PrEx 20 days (External)

School of Education Seminar Series

• Dr Marg Rogers and and Dr Anwaar Ulhaq (Charles Sturt University): “Interdisciplinary research: How it can improve impact, knowledge translation, engagement, and access to funding”. Wednesday 16 August 2023 View past presentations https://www.une.edu.au/about-une/faculty-of-humanities-arts-social-sciences-and-education/school-of-education/research/seminar-series

Other 

• Strong Beginnings – as a result of the QITE (Quality Initial Teacher Education) and Teacher Education Expert Panel (TEEP) Discussion Papers. All universities are working on how to implement recommendations from the New Beginnings document.  
• ASCILITE – free membership for all in the university. Please ask Sue how to do this – join a SIG, social media, monthly newsletters, webinars, research schools, CMALT, TELAS, AJET, mentoring – community and women in academic leadership, grants, awards, bursaries, peer-assisted learning and AJET. 
• PPDR – Please start meeting with your Head of Department about setting your goals for 2023. Ensure you discuss Teaching, Research and Service/Leadership outlining SMART Goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timebound).