Mr David Forshaw

(Co-Principal Bridgewater High School, Co-ordinating Principal of the Jordan River Cluster)

Mr Forshaw is currently the Co-Principal, Bridgewater High School and the Co-ordinating Principal of the Jordan River Cluster.

Field of Study: Positive behaviour support and programs for students who are disengaged.

Mr Forshaw will travel to Missouri USA to work with Professor Tim Lewis at the OSEP Centre on Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports at the University of Missouri, in the area of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). The PBS program offers a broad range of systemic and individualised strategies for achieving important social learning outcomes, while preventing problem behaviour.

Mr Forshaw will also visit Wernham West Centre in Toronto, Canada, to study inclusive practices through new pedagogical approaches, Hillpark School in Glasgow, Scotland and Knowley community in Liverpool where education has been a major player in a partnership, which has brought the whole community together to achieve some very impressive outcomes.

Mr Forshaw will take up his scholarship in September and October 2006.

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Frances Parker

(Illawarra Primary School)

Ms Parker is an AST3, currently teaching kindergarten at Illawarra Primary School.

Field of Study: Curriculum reform and assessment reporting process.

Ms Parker’s scholarship will take her to Findon School Victoria, USA to work with Lela Gardini and Lousi Cadwell in Missouri, Kieran Egan in New York and then to Canada to work with Patricia Tarr.

Her focus will be the application of the Regio Emilia program in the early childhood area and strategies for implementing change in the early year’s curriculum.

Ms Parker will also study in Regio Emilia in Italy, the ways in which the principals of the program can be used with older children.

Ms Parker will undertake her study in August 2006.

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Jill Abell

(The Hutchins School)

Ms Abell is the Director of Libraries and IT at the Hutchins School, with teaching and tutoring responsibilities.

Field of Study:

1. Curriculum reform and assessment and reporting processes.
2. Inclusive schooling.

Ms Abell will use the Scholarship during May 2006 for a two week training course of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) at Southwest Educational Development Laboratory at Austin, Texas. The CBAM is a conceptual framework that describes, explains and predicts likely teacher behaviours in a change process. The framework emphasises the role of professional learning communities and culture and quality leaderships to build and sustain such communities.

Upon return Ms Abell will share the framework and tools with school leaders.

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Amanda Harper

(OPCET)

Ms Harper is currently the Senior Project Officer for Enterprise & Vocational Learning at OPCET. Her substantive teaching position is at Claremont High School.

Field of Study: Curriculum reform and assessment and reporting process.

Ms Harper’s scholarship will enable her to visit a range of schools and organisations throughout England and Scotland and attend the Young Enterprise Scotland (YES) Conference, the Enterprise Education Symposium in Cambridge and associate Enterprise Education Week activities.

Her research and itinerary has been designed to enable her to gain a greater understanding of Enterprise Learning and to develop ways in which it might be used as an integral teaching strategy in Tasmanian schools, in order to increase authentic learning opportunities for students, establish and strengthen links between community and schools, provide greater continuity from compulsory to post-compulsory education and increase student engagement and retention.

Ms Harper will take up her four week Scholarship for the period 26 October to 24 November 2005.

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