Who the teacher is as a person matters, says Dr William DeJean, because teachers’ histories & identities shape their pedagogical practices. He’s the CEO and founder of Unleash Learning, an educational consultancy based in Sydney that works across Australia. It helps school leaders and businesses make a cultural shift across their organisations so that learning […]
Out-of-Field Teaching
Out-of-field teaching is when you teach a year level, stage or subject in a K-12 school without the necessary university qualifications in content knowledge and pedagogical content, i.e. the latter means you know how to teach that content.
Why you need to STOMP & clap if you’re teaching English out of field
Dr Lucinda McKnight: It’s really important for us to start to acknowledge this, although we could we call it a phenomenon as if it’s something unusual. Teaching out-of-field is an ordinary part of teachers’ everyday work at that basic level.
How can school leaders better support out-of-field mathematics teachers?
How can school leaders better support out-of-field mathematics teachers? Professor Colleen Vale, a maths-education researcher from Monash University in Victoria, Australia, recently appeared on the Out-Of-Field Teaching Toolkit podcast. (Episode 1, Season 2). You can listen to the interview or read this lightly edited transcript with highlights in bold and super-highlights in red. Colleen […]
PodCAST: The Out-of-Field Teaching Toolkit
That’s a wrap! The first season of the Out-of-Field Teacher Toolkit Podcast concluded in December 2022. It’s about and for K-12 educators who teach subjects for which they don’t have the necessary qualifications. This fortnightly show features insights, tips and solutions from teachers, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs and more from Australia and the world. You can […]