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Murik, Joe; Shaddock, Anthony; Spinks, Anthony; Zilber, David; Curry, Craig – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2005
This research examines the strategies reported by teachers who have managed aggressive and extremely disruptive behaviour of students who have special needs. A sample of 52 teachers from mainstream and special settings listed the strategies that they have used to respond to this behaviour, the reasons for their choice and their estimate of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Special Needs Students, Aggression
Council of Adult Education, Melbourne (Australia). – 1995
An Australian project provided an inservice, team teaching program interspersed with professional development workshops for community-based practitioners in English as a Second Language (ESL) and Adult Literacy and Basic Education (ABLE). The group who participated included four ESL teachers working in community providers and four adult literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Lange, John D.; Burroughs-Lange, Sue G. – 1994
This qualitative study proposes a model of the processes of attaining professional knowledge through which teachers develop strategies for becoming comfortable with their image of themselves as effective teachers. Case studies of 12 experienced elementary school teachers in Brisbane, Australia, examined how they gain their professional knowledge…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Competence, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Smyth, W. John – 1982
An inservice program for Australian teachers, which involved clinical supervision methods, was evaluated to examine its effectiveness. Clinical supervision seeks to promote a form of teacher development that is descriptive and formative. Teachers were involved in a process of assisted self-reflection about their teaching, with the aid of a…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Fordham, Adrian; Ainley, John – 1980
A study focused on development of a sound methodology with which Australian Technical and Further Education (TAFE) authorities, institutions, and staff could evaluate continuing staff development programs and activities. The methodology developed was college-based, focused upon the college staff development program, and considered the staff…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attendance, College Faculty, Colleges

Davis, John E. – Rural Educator, 1983
Discusses supervised correspondence education for both teachers and students to complement conventional classrooms and expand secondary curriculum for rural schools. Recommends needs assessment; checking availability of needed materials; sharing material among schools; course scheduling to assure students of regualar supervision and assistance;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Correspondence Study, Curriculum Enrichment, Foreign Countries
Ayres, Paul; Dinham, Steve; Sawyer, Wayne – 1999
This report presents information from a study of the Higher School Certificate (HSC) in New South Wales, Australia. The study investigated teaching strategies that led to success at the HSC. Researchers identified successful teachers, observed them teaching an HSC class, and followed up with an interview. Groups of ex-students also completed…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Marr, Beth – ARIS Resources Bulletin, 1999
The Adult Numeracy and Mathematics On-Line (ANAMOL) project investigated the use of online technology as a medium for professional discussion, networking, and collaboration among a small group of isolated adult numeracy practitioners in Australia. After investigation of several methods of online communication, freeware was selected because, in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Uses in Education, Discussion Groups, Distance Education

Grbich, Carolyn – Australian Journal of Education, 1992
A study in Victoria (Australia) investigated integration of students with severe intellectual disabilities into three educational settings. It was found that, although these students are better integrated in Victoria than in the United Kingdom or United States, integration has proceeded with inadequate support services, particularly professional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Elementary Secondary Education

Schaverien, Lynette; Cosgrove, Mark – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 1995
Identifies two frameworks that limit teachers' vision: (1) a transmission perspective on learning; and (2) a limiting conception of and anxious approach to technology. This study helped teachers break free of these restraints by providing an opportunity to become learners in a technological context based on developmentalist views of teaching and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking

Ferry, Brian – Journal of Elementary Science Education, 1997
Reports on an innovative program that allowed preservice and classroom teachers to have personal experience with a constructivist approach to learning science. Preservice and classroom teachers collaborated to prepare, implement, and evaluate a simple hands-on science-teaching project that focused on learner acquisition of knowledge through active…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperating Teachers, Elementary School Science
Vozzo, Les; Abusson, Peter; Steele, Frances; Watson, Kevin – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2004
Novice teachers need support if they are to survive the reality of school. A web of relationships involving members of the school community, mentors outside the school community and a university tutor has been shown to be an effective way of providing this assistance. This article describes an extended web of assistance offered to a group of 11…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Mentors, Social Networks, Coaching (Performance)
Stein, Sarah J.; Ginns, Ian S.; McRobbie, Campbell J. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2003
This paper reports on an investigation into the first time implementation of a technology education unit of work by a beginning primary school teacher. The researchers monitored the teacher's implementation of the unit across a 6 week period using an interpretivist research approach. A variety of data sources were drawn upon including teacher and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience, Teaching Models, Learning Activities
Technology Univ., Sydney (Australia). – 1995
This package for presenters contains an 84-hour professional development course designed to train and support teachers of adult numeracy and mathematics in adult literacy and basic education. The information for presenters provided at the beginning includes material on how the course was developed, content and structure, and lists of resources and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Ginns, Ian S.; Watters, James J. – 1996
The implementation of effective science programs in primary schools is of continuing interest and concern for teacher educators. Recent Australian national initiatives have been designed to foster the teaching of science in primary schools. At the provincial level in Queensland, decisions concerning the planning and introduction of a new primary…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Curriculum Development, Educational Television, Elementary Education