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Garvis, Susanne; Lemon, Narelle; Pendergast, Donna; Yim, Bonnie – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
In Australia, the growth in the provision of early childhood services for very young children aged birth to three years has placed increased demands on pre-service teachers as new policy stipulates the need for qualified early childhood teachers. While many teacher education programs offer early childhood courses, they have traditionally had a…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Infants
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Luke, Allan; McArdle, Felicity – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
Federal, State and school-based professional development has become a multi-million dollar educational enterprise in Australia. Yet there are no published models for the making of systems-level professional development policy. Reviewing the literature on the characteristics of effective professional development programs, this paper proposes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Educational Policy, Theory Practice Relationship
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Hooley, Neil; Moore, Rod – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2005
Pre-service programs for secondary teachers have traditionally involved method subjects, where participants are inducted into the curriculum practices of two disciplinary or subject areas. In 2003, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, enrolled a small group of fourteen pre-service teachers into an innovative Graduate Diploma of Secondary…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Instructional Innovation, School Organization