EDUCATORS and the PROFESSION

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EDUCATORS and thePROFESSION
EDUC4033

• Carmel Maio-Taddeo

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Course statement This course adopts an ECE-12
focus as it explores some of the challenges
facing beginning educators as they prepare to
enter the profession. Topics include the notion
of professionalism cyclical change schooling
reform accountability the work of educators
transition and the challenges of change.
Specific aspects of each topic provide
illustrative foci.  
Unit value of course 4.5
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Learning objectives The course aims       to
examine factors which influence the provision of
care/education       to consider the changing
nature, structures and processes of influence
within education/care, and of the implications
for the educators world of work and to
increase awareness of potential challenges
facing beginning educators.
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The course objectives intend that students should
be able to       demonstrate a critically
analytical awareness of the relationship between
education/care and societal influences      
identify and describe some of the potential
challenges facing beginning educators
and       articulate an informed and justifiable
personal-professional stance on contemporary
educational issues.
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Assignment details

• Assignment 1
• Semester paper (2000 words)
• Assignment 2
• Group Presentation
• Assignment 3
• The Presentation Paper (1200 words)
• (to be submitted for marking within 2 weeks of
  presenting your groups presentation)

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Week 1
Roles of Educators Past, Present Future
Teachers Work Changing role of teachers
Week 2
The Profession and Cyclical Change Single Sex
versus Co-education.
Re-organising Schooling
Week 3
Re-organising Schooling Self-management in
Schools and Settings
The Educators World of Work Work, Standards,
Competencies Accountability
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Week 4
Issues for Educators in Transition Induction
The Educators World of Work Teacher Appraisal
and Performance Management
Week 5
Issues for Educators in Transition Issues
facing beginning teachers
Facing the Challenges of Change The SACSA
Framework.
Facing the Challenges of Change Continuing
Professional Development.
Week 6
Educators Lifelong Learning
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Lecture Format

• Defining Educators
• Why change occurs
• Historical perspective
• Major reforms
• Post World War 2
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s

• Into the new Millennium
• Clarification of Educators Role
• Job Role Description
• Role of Educators
• Educators of the future

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Definition of an Educator

• Educators as defined in the Collins Australian
  Dictionary states that an
• Educator
• is someone who educates
• teacher
• a specialist in education

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Why Does Change Occur?

• Dissatisfaction with the current situation.
• An appreciation that society is constantly
  evolving and change is required to meet these
  changing needs.
• As active participants in society we have
  responsibilities to implement and apply newly
  acquired knowledge.

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Historical Perspective

• First teachers in Australia were convicts.
• Governor Macquarie felt that schools were a means
  of bringing about social cohesion and community
  discipline.
• By 1880 the free, secular and compulsory
  education legislation had been enacted in each of
  the eastern states.

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Historical Perspective

• Ragged Schools and night schools were established
  to cater for some of societys needs.
• chief duty of the elementary schools should be
  to train pupils to teach themselves, and the test
  of success of schools (is) not the amount of
  knowledge stored in pupils memories, but the
  capacity they have attained for learning. F. A.
  Campbell

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Major Reforms and core pedagogies (early years of
Federation)

• Extension of the curriculum
• Liberalization of teaching methods
• Easing of expectations and constraints on
  teaching staff
• Students were regarded by teachers as empty
  vessels to be filled with what society agreed to
  be worthy knowledge.

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Post World War 2

• Establishment of the Commonwealth Office of
  Education
• By late 1940s migrants had created a demand
  for extensive migrant education programs
• Governments felt that education systems could
  play a vital role in re-establishing
  ex-servicemen and women and in helping to
  rebuild the economy.

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The 1970s

• This era was known as the era of innovation
  and in support of this the Innovation Program
  was established.
• Shift in educational thinking the process began
  to be valued as much as the end result.
• Push to make school decision making processes
  more democratic

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1970s

• Karmel Report released in 1973 identified the
  need for governments to allocate more funding to
  education and it advocated that schools could
  become mediums for social change, at least partly
  by becoming increasingly responsive to the
  communities they served
• School based curriculum promoted and gaining
  acceptance and School to work transition
  program was established to address the issue of
  youth unemployment

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1980s

• Development and implementation of the document
  Our schools and their Purposes

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1990s
The Economy
Centralization Corporate federalism National
agendas
De-centralisation De-regulation Devolution Delegat
ion Privatisation Marketisation
Planned decentralisation Remote control pushing
the crisis down the line
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efficiency
frameworks
effectiveness
education for work
national profiles
1990s
retention
retraining
international competitiveness
key competencies
national curriculum
budgets markets exports
restructuring
performance indicators
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Into the new millennium
The MCEETYA Ministerial Council on, Education,
Employment and Youth Affairs National Framework -
Australia, 2003 Rationale for National Teaching
Standards A strong and effective school system
is integral to individual success, school
cohesion and progress and national prosperity. It
is clear that teachers need to be more and more
successful with a wide range of learners in order
to prepare future citizens with the sophisticated
skills needed to participate in the knowledge
society.
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The New Millennium

• Teachers have to be more knowledgeable in their
  content areas and extremely skillful in a wide
  range of teaching approaches to cater for the
  diverse learning needs of each student.

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Clarification of Educators Role

• Each system will have role expectations specific
  to their system. That is Education Department
  will have role and responsibilities pertinent to
  their system as will the Catholic and Independent
  systems.

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Job Role Description/Criteria (example)

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• An enthusiastic educator who is able to provide a
  contemporary curriculum that meets the unique
  learning needs of middle school students and
  develops the individual person.
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• Able to demonstrate the ability to successfully
  integrate ICT into everyday teaching and
  learning.
• Has the ability to work collaboratively within
  the middle school teaching team and can
  demonstrate skills and knowledge of current
  practice and principles in behaviour education.
• Have a commitment to support the ethos of the
  school.

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Roles of Educators

• Educators Changing Role
• Teach students how to learn, solve problems, to
  analyse
• To become life long learners

• Educators seen in roles such as
• Social Worker
• Counselor
• Child minder

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Educators Roles

• Educators will need to be leaders/ change agents
• Educators will need to know what they are doing
  in regards to futures
• Educators need to be able to carefully explain
  what they do e.g. To parents, community groups

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Educators in the Future

• The forty fifth session of the International
  Conference on Education (ICE) conducted by UNESCO
  has found that
• More and more will be expected of future
  teachers, whether it be a question of ethical
  training, training for tolerance, or the ability
  to manage uncertainty, creativity, solidarity or
  participation. Teachers will therefore be
  appreciated not only for their knowledge and
  purely technical skills but also for their
  personal qualities (Tedesco, 1996, p1)

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• YOU ARE
• THE EDUCATORS
• OF THE FUTURE

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