Improving graduate quality through industry partnerships

Improving graduate quality through industry partnerships

2009 NAFEA Conference

Sustaining Industry Partners

Renewal through partnerships• Evidence• Reforming our

practice

Teacher Residency• Example of a

beginning Industry partnership

Partnerships are messy• Trust• Mutuality• Reciprocity• Sustaining

Industry Partners


Recruit, Prepare & Retain

Reviews in Teacher

Education

Push for Engagement

Teacher Shortage

Federal Funding

Reforming our PracticeNew Territory




Teacher Residency

Teacher Residency

Clinical/Applied setting


Teacher Residency

• Funding and system level support– DEEWR ($930,000)– Catholic Education (National Partnerships

Program)– Training Schools (DET)

• This project forms part of the State’s Implementation Plan for the Smarter Schools National Partnership Agreement on

Improving Teacher Quality• Scholarships 50 & 125 in 2011 ($15,000)• In-school support (Site Director, Mentor teacher)• Evaluation ($40,000)


Partnerships are messy…

Trust - you both have something to offer & get out of this

• “How it will all turn out – I guess we need to let it go and see what happens”

• “Our school is taking on a big commitment in time and staff resources BUT I think there will be huge dividends for us”

Effective and Sustainable University-School Partnerships, 2009



Mutuality – working together will bring benefits

• “The residency program is a partnership. The residency program is a two way learning process”

• “The potential for professional growth and materials that the Uni can send out to us re: modern theory or approaches”



• Reciprocity – recognise and value what the other brings

• Values line – “those that can’t teach teach teachers” SA or SD


Challenge in engagement

"engage with the world, locally and globally, as responsible citizens committed to public purposes, as students and scholars ready to help solve complex problems with rigour and imagination, as people who live by the ethical standards we teach, as individuals who repay the privilege of being in a rare place like this by using our knowledge to help advance the well-being of people beyond our walls.“

HARVARD University president Drew Faust


Challenge in engagement

“At UM, we want you to be creative and your professors will work with you to develop that potential. We value students who come to the classroom with initiative, innovation and a dose of scepticism," she said.

"We expect you to work in teams because that is the best way to find answers to the really complex problems of the day. We are constantly in pursuit of new knowledge here and you are expected to contribute to that quest. One of the reasons you are part of this community is because of what you can offer your peers, and the diversity of cultures, beliefs and interests of our student body is limitless.

"And we believe in service, in making the world a better place through our decisions and actions.”

University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman


The future

Change

Conversation

Learner focusRes

ources

Trust, Mutuality

Reciprocity

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Improving graduate quality through industry partnerships