ProgramQuality In VET Teaching
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Date: Friday 1 April 2011
Venue: 80 George Street, Brisbane
Participants in this workshop debated and discussed the main recommendations from the Quality of teaching in VET project. In addition, participants will be asked to discuss the steps that VET needs to take to support the development of VET teachers as expert teachers and expert practitioners in their vocational field of practice. We will explore arguments on the structure of the VET workforce, appropriate VET teaching qualifications, and continuing professional development, the development of a professional body for VET teachers, and the extent to which a national VET teacher development strategy would be helpful.
Leesa Wheelahan
Associate Professor, L.H. Martin Institute for Higher Edcuation Leadership and Management, University of Melbourne
Leesa Wheelahan is an associate professor at the L.H. Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management at the University of Melbourne. She is the lead researcher in the Quality of teaching in VET project that was funded by the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations, and managed by the Australian College of Educators (see: http://www.lhmartininstitute.edu.au/research-and-publications/research/1-study-on-the-quality-of-teaching-in-vet). She is interested in tertiary policy, relations between VET and higher education and student equity. She has taught in tertiary education for approximately 17 years, which includes time as a TAFE teacher, in policy development, as an academic developer, and as a teacher of VET teachers