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An opportunity to support beginning teachers in the transition from higher education into practice Dr Nick Kelly Australian Digital Futures Institute The University of Southern Queensland

ASCILITE Presentation December 2013

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Presenting early research about how beginning teachers are currently supported and how they could be supported in future. For further reading see papers that can be found at nickkellyresearch.com or https://usq.academia.edu/NickKelly The long and short of it is that 1 in 5 beginning teachers in Australia is effectively unsupported and that Universities could work together to augment current support. We've commenced this research.

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An opportunity to support beginning teachers in the transition from higher education into practice

Dr Nick Kelly

Australian Digital Futures InstituteThe University of Southern Queensland

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What happens to a cohort after higher education?

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Follow-up assistance 34%

Survey: Contact community 53%

Email 71% Facebook 47%

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The potential:• Continued community• Peer support

Why?• It’s hard• Gaps in current support (1 in 5)• They want it

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Design principles (95% agreement):• Ask questions of experienced teachers• Easily searchable and moderated FAQ

from all 1st year teachers in the country

• Collegiality, continuity, resources

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Community knowledge-sharing

• StackOverflow• IT professional community• 11 minutes• 5 million questions

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What we’re doing• Design-based research• Prototyping, piloting• Group of universities• National network• Transition support

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Thank you!