A colleague recently drew my attention to an excellent article with the provocative title, 'Fewer women receive research grants - but the reasons are more complicated than you'd think'. The article got me thinking about what the reasons might be and my mind quickly turned to what I could do about any of these reasons during students' school years.
Ryan Stewart is a full-time member of Pymble's History, Society and Ethics Learning Area where he teaches History and Aboriginal Studies. Ryan is also a researcher at the University of Newcastle where he is working towards his PhD in History.
Year 12 student, Lucy Clark, organised the conference after successfully co-running the inaugural student research conference in 2022. Lucy strongly believes in the benefit of giving a voice to students to showcase their work.
The focus of the project was how learning analytics can be used to enhance student engagement in online learning in secondary school. The pilot set out to see if tracking software can ‘see’ student engagement.
Pymble Institute staff recently completed micro-credentials in research design and data collection methods with the Centre for Continuing Education, Australian National University. For research leaders based in schools, investing in your research toolkit is important as you are often called upon to assist colleagues with a range of projects and these can be out of your own field in terms of both content and method.
Career change teachers often bring with them a past life rich in combinations of skills, leadership and experience, as well as strong intentions to contribute to society as a teacher. The research highlights attributes like maturity, resilience and intentionality which strengthens teachers' commitments to their work.
