Regional Resilience: Pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush

This paper reports on the outcomes of a two year ALTC Competitive Research and Development Project that aimed to "Develop Strategies at the Pre-Service Level to Address Critical Teacher Attraction and Retention Issues in Australian Rural, Regional and Remote Schools". As well as developing...

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Main Authors: Trinidad, Sue, Broadley, Tania, Terry, E., Boyd, D., Lock, G., Sharplin, E., Ledger, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Society for the Provision of Education for Rural Australia 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26338
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author Trinidad, Sue
Broadley, Tania
Terry, E.
Boyd, D.
Lock, G.
Sharplin, E.
Ledger, S.
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Trinidad, Sue
Broadley, Tania
Terry, E.
Boyd, D.
Lock, G.
Sharplin, E.
Ledger, S.
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description This paper reports on the outcomes of a two year ALTC Competitive Research and Development Project that aimed to "Develop Strategies at the Pre-Service Level to Address Critical Teacher Attraction and Retention Issues in Australian Rural, Regional and Remote Schools". As well as developing a ‘training framework’ and teaching guides to increase the capacity and credibility of four universities to prepare educators who might venture out of the metropolitan area to teach, data were gathered from pre-service and graduate teachers to analyse regional resilience. It was found that there was a strong likelihood to participate in a regional practicum and stay in a non-metropolitan community once they graduated from university if they had a positive attitude to regional Western Australia either through a family connection or previous experience. Recommendations from this study emphasise the importance of having pre-service students participate in positive regional experiences early in their university study.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-263382023-02-27T07:34:30Z Regional Resilience: Pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush Trinidad, Sue Broadley, Tania Terry, E. Boyd, D. Lock, G. Sharplin, E. Ledger, S. Terry, E. Lock, G. Boyd, D. pre-service training Regional teacher education This paper reports on the outcomes of a two year ALTC Competitive Research and Development Project that aimed to "Develop Strategies at the Pre-Service Level to Address Critical Teacher Attraction and Retention Issues in Australian Rural, Regional and Remote Schools". As well as developing a ‘training framework’ and teaching guides to increase the capacity and credibility of four universities to prepare educators who might venture out of the metropolitan area to teach, data were gathered from pre-service and graduate teachers to analyse regional resilience. It was found that there was a strong likelihood to participate in a regional practicum and stay in a non-metropolitan community once they graduated from university if they had a positive attitude to regional Western Australia either through a family connection or previous experience. Recommendations from this study emphasise the importance of having pre-service students participate in positive regional experiences early in their university study. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26338 Society for the Provision of Education for Rural Australia fulltext
spellingShingle pre-service training
Regional
teacher education
Trinidad, Sue
Broadley, Tania
Terry, E.
Boyd, D.
Lock, G.
Sharplin, E.
Ledger, S.
Regional Resilience: Pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush
title Regional Resilience: Pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush
title_full Regional Resilience: Pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush
title_fullStr Regional Resilience: Pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush
title_full_unstemmed Regional Resilience: Pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush
title_short Regional Resilience: Pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush
title_sort regional resilience: pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush
topic pre-service training
Regional
teacher education
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26338