1. Preparing educators for the brave
new world of curricula, standards,
accreditation and even teaching.
Prof Bob Conway
Dean of Education
Flinders University

2. 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.
© R.Conway, 2012

3. What
educational
change
seems like for
many
teachers

4. 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
© R.Conway, 2012

5. 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
© R.Conway, 2012

6. 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
© R.Conway, 2012

7. Australian Curriculum
– just add a local nozzle?
© R.Conway, 2012

8. 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(??)
© R.Conway, 2012

9. How do we get to be
heard as individuals in
the world of curriculum
change, changing
accountability in terms
of performance, and
job expectations?
© R.Conway, 2012

10. 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)
© R.Conway, 2012

11. Sometimes it
all seems like
this.
Don’t give up
as your
schools and
students need
you!!
Thank you!
© R.Conway, 2012