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, Suzanne, Broadley, Tania, Terry, E., Boyd, D., Lock, G., Sharplin, E., Ledger, S.
Other Authors: Emmy Terry
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Society for the Provision of Education for Rural Australia 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28812
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author Trinidad, Suzanne
Broadley, Tania
Terry, E.
Boyd, D.
Lock, G.
Sharplin, E.
Ledger, S.
author2 Emmy Terry
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Trinidad, Suzanne
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-20.500.11937-288122023-02-07T08:01:18Z Regional resilience: Pre-service teacher preparation to teach in the bush Trinidad, Suzanne Broadley, Tania Terry, E. Boyd, D. Lock, G. Sharplin, E. Ledger, S. Emmy Terry Graeme Lock Don Boyd Education Student teachers--Training Effective teacher Education--Curricula Rural 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. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28812 Society for the Provision of Education for Rural Australia restricted
spellingShingle Education
Student teachers--Training
Effective teacher
Education--Curricula
Rural
Trinidad, Suzanne
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 Education
Student teachers--Training
Effective teacher
Education--Curricula
Rural
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28812