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Developing Credit Based Micro-Credentials for the Teaching Profession: An Australian Descriptive Case Study
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White, Simone – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
The impact of the pandemic has revealed just how important teachers are to a nation's economic productivity and to the very social fabric and well-being of any society. It has also revealed more starkly the socio-economic and digital divides that teachers continue to address daily to support student learning. How then, to best support teachers own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Credentials, Faculty Development, Teacher Education
Teacher Educators for New Times? Redefining an Important Occupational Group
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White, Simone – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2019
Teacher educators are an occupational group currently experiencing increased scrutiny by international policy makers and researchers alike. This occupational group however is increasingly difficult to define and identify in a complex, internationally changing teacher education policy reform environment. The question posed is an enduring one: who…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Identity, Career Development
Project Evidence: Responding to the Changing Professional Learning Needs of Mentors in Initial Teacher Education
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Allen, Jeanne Maree; White, Simone; Sim, Cheryl – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This positioning paper seeks to contribute to the knowledge base of the changing professional learning needs of supervising or mentor teachers in initial teacher education. To do so, we draw from the work of "Project Evidence," an Australian Office of Learning and Teaching funded project, designed to support teacher education through the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation
Investing in Sustainable and Resilient Rural Social Space: Lessons for Teacher Education
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White, Simone; Lock, Graeme; Hastings, Wendy; Cooper, Maxine; Reid, Jo-Anne; Green, Bill – Education in Rural Australia, 2011
Attracting and retaining effective education leaders and teaching staff for regional, rural and remote schools in Australia is a major sustainability and quality issue facing every State and Territory. It is also a major concern in pre-service teacher education, particularly for those universities which have a commitment to rural and regional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Rural Schools, Educational Change
Resourcing Change in Small Schools
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Anderson, Michelle; White, Simone – Australian Journal of Education, 2011
The theme of this article is the challenge that school leaders face in creating the conditions for learning in small schools. We draw on the concepts of "social capital" and "social entrepreneurship" to identify tensions and possibilities for school leaders in a case study of a small rural school as they seek to find resources…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Small Schools, Social Capital, Instructional Leadership
Supporting Beginning Rural Teachers: Lessons from Successful Schools
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White, Simone; Lock, Graeme; Hastings, Wendy; Reid, Jo-Anne; Green, Bill; Cooper, Maxine – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
Across Australia and internationally, the vexed problem of staffing rural school remains a major issue affecting the educational outcomes of many rural students and their families. TERRAnova, (New Ground in Teacher Education for Rural and Regional Australia), is the name of a large Australian Research Council funded (2008-2010) project involving:…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Persistence, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers