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Smeed, Judy; Bourke, Terri; Nickerson, Julie; Corsbie, Tracy – SAGE Open, 2015
School curriculum change processes have traditionally been managed internally. However, in Queensland, Australia, as a response to the current high-stakes accountability regime, more and more principals are outsourcing this work to external change agents (ECAs). In 2009, one of the authors (a university lecturer and ECA) developed a curriculum…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Implementation, Foreign Countries, Accountability
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Cohrssen, Caroline; Church, Amelia; Tayler, Collette – SAGE Open, 2016
This multiple case study explored early childhood educators' implementation of a suite of play-based mathematics activities with children aged 3 to 5 years in six different early childhood education and care programs in Melbourne, Australia. Educators approached the enactment of the activities differently; however, those educators who used the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Activities, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Baldwin, Christopher Francis – SAGE Open, 2015
The purpose of this study was to analyze and explore the experiences of eight first-year physical education teachers who have taught African refugee students. Interviews were conducted at the end of each participant's first year of teaching. The findings of this study highlight the vast different learning styles of students from Africa and the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Refugees