Early Career Teacher Resilience
ARC Linkage Grant 2008-2012
(with Professor Bruce Johnson; Professor Barry Down; Dr Rosie Le Cornu; Dr Anna Sullivan; Dr Judy Peters; Dr Jane Pearce; Ms Janet Hunter).
The first few years of teaching are difficult for many teachers. Yet research into the ‘problems’ of beginning teachers is nearly exhausted. Few new ideas about how to address these ‘problems’ are emerging.
There is a need for a new generation of collaborative research that investigates how beginning teachers develop resilience and sustain their commitment to teaching. Therefore, this project aims to find out how early career teachers deal with threats to their wellbeing. It will identify what internal strengths and external strategies promote teacher resilience. It will provide the evidence base for interventions that will increase teacher commitment and reduce teacher attrition.
Roundtable Meeting Dates
This research project will be organised and managed over the three and a half years through two ‘Roundtables’, one hosted by the University of South Australia in Adelaide, and the other by Murdoch University in Perth, WA. In 2009, Round tables are scheduled to meet as follows:
South Australia
- Thursday, 26 February 2009
- Friday, 15 May 2009
- Wednesday, 5 August 2009
- Wednesday, 28 October 2009
West Australia
- Monday, 9 March 2009
- Wednesday, 20 May 2009
- Monday, 10 August 2009
- Monday, 9 November 2009
Addressing our teacher exodus
Thursday, 31 July 2008
Australia is facing a teacher shortage crisis with many teachers leaving the profession early in their careers, and now a UniSA research project will help to stem this tide by identifying the factors that develop resilient and successful teachers wanting to stay in the profession.