Anne Wright

(Summerdale Primary School)

Ms Wright is a part-time classroom teacher based at Summerdale Primary and most recently has been appointed as a part-time education district curriculum project officer, supporting the implementation of the Essential Learnings Standards/Collaborative Assessment protocol.

Field of Study: Assessment against the Essential Learning Standards. Collaborative assessment and the interaction between assessment of, assessment for and assessment as learning. Ms Wright’s Scholarship will enable her to visit schools in the United States of America to research collaborative assessment/analysis of students’ work and assessment for learning.

She will also enrol in two key courses focussing on differentiating instruction and understanding by design; two important aspects of student learning and a Summer Institute focussed on assessment and collaborative assessment and planning. Ms Wright will take up her Scholarship in two parts – the first during January and February 2005 and the second during June and July 2005.

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Timothy Jenkinson

(Scotch Oakburn College)

Mr Jenkinson has been teaching for nearly seven years, most of those at Scotch Oakburn College. He is currently a grade 6 teacher.

Field of Study: Assessment against the Essential Learning Standards. Collaborative assessment and the interaction between assessment of, assessment for and assessment as learning.

His research and itinerary has been designed to help him learn to better understand important content, recognise and develop students’ multiple intellectual strengths, help students learn to think critically and creatively and on return, work with other professionals to assess their work in ways that are ongoing and promote further learning within the framework of the Essential Learning.

Mr Jenkinson’s research will take him to New York City for the ASCD Assessment Conference, which will focus on differentiating instruction and the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to attend a Summer Institute titled ‘Project Zero Classroom’. As the focus of Ms Wright and Mr Jenkinson’s research are similar, both will share a scholarship to provide maximum coverage of the area and value to the Tasmanian education system upon their return.

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Elizabeth Millington

(Curriculum Standards & Support)

• International Travel Report to the Premier [Word 40KB]
• Travel Diary [Word 55KB]

Ms Millington is a southern regional Early Years Co-ordinator, responsible for community co-ordination and facilitation, practitioner research projects for the early years, professional development and implementation of Essential Learnings in the early childhood area.

Field of Study: Pertinent to the use of Essential Connections: a guide to young children’s learning by early childhood teachers and childcare professionals.

Ms Millington is ideally placed to bring back new theories and constructs and disseminate the findings of her Scholarship. Her Scholarship will enable her to take part in the Reggio Emilia Information Exchange Study Program in Reggio Emilio, Italy, January 23 – 28, 2005. Building a ‘community of learners’ is the aim of the Reggio Emilia approach, which has synergy with the Tasmanian Essential Learnings Curriculum.

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Judith Timbs

(Distance Education Tasmania)

• Study Tour Report [Word 404KB]

Ms Timbs has been the Principal of Distance Education Tasmania for one year. She has expertise in online learning and flexible delivery of learning.

Field of Study: How we measure success in turning around school and community culture to curb violent and disruptive behaviours in a school context.

Ms Timbs will visit virtual schools and academies and related online learning programs in the United States of America, the Non-school, Distributed School in East Anglia, United Kingdom and the Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning, Sweden. Ms Timbs will take up her Scholarship in April and May 2005.

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