ACE 2015 National Conference Brisbane – 24 & 25 September, 2015 Conference Proceedings EDUCATORS ON THE EDGE: Big ideas for change and innovation First published 2015 Australian College of Educators PO Box 12014 A’Beckett Street VIC 8006 www.austcolled.com.au Copyright © Australian College of Educators 2015 All rights reserved. Except as provided by the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any forms or any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. Edited by Professor Glenn Finger and Ms Paola S. Ghirelli Cover and text design by Joy Reynolds Design National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: Stephen Dinham, (first author in publication) Title: Educators on the edge: Big ideas for change and innovation ISBN: 978-0-9874844-7-5 (e-book) Notes: Contains bibliographical references. Subjects: Educators on the edge Big ideas for innovation and change The worrying implications of privatisation in schooling and of the review of federation How innovative approaches improve children’s learning Innovative technologies and human rights education Leveraging cloud-based technologies to enhance personal learning environments Internationalising programs in an Australian offshore university campus Conceptualising the challenge of integrating digital technologies in pedagogy Big Picture learning: Why this, why now? The Performance edge: Optimising wellbeing and achievement Understanding creativity and innovation: The power of building a professional learning community that supports staff to lead school improvement Contributive leadership: How can you sustain a collegial culture within your organisation? Leadership on the edge: Big ideas for change and innovation - Exploring the leadership profiles Pastoral care in times of high stakes testing and accountability Educators on the edge…Of what? Innovative approaches to the design of inclusive online learning environments Improving students’ outcomes through the use of assessment diagnostics Other authors/contributors Australian College of Educators Glenn Finger, editor Paola Ghirelli, editor Keynote Papers Stephen Dinham, author Bob Lingard, author Rhonda Livingstone, author Gillian Triggs, author Concurrent Papers Scott Adamson, author Robyn Anderson, author Christine Beckmann, author Christopher Blundell, author Chris Bonnor, author Catherine Brandon, author Brian Burgess, author Steve Crapnell, author Brett Darcy, author Margery Evans, author Kate Hall, author Peter Hart, author Rachael Heritage, author Julie Hyde, author Kar-Tin Lee, author Shaun Nykvist, author Clare Scollay, author Judy Smeed, author Viv White, author Denise Wood, author Alec Young, author Dewey decimal classification notation: 371.2 Editorial This year's Australian College of Educators (ACE) National Conference theme is 'Educators on the edge: Big ideas for change and innovation'. Therefore, ACE has proudly presented an opportunity for all education professionals to gather, discuss and share cutting-edge, creative and innovative practices, nationally and globally at this two-day event held on 24 & 25 September in Brisbane. These ACE 2015 National Conference Proceedings include high quality Keynote Addresses, Paper Presentations, Interactive Workshop Session Papers, a Provocation Paper and the winning Paper from the ACE | ASG Student Educator Writing the future National Award. In our 'Call for Papers' this year, Australian educators were invited to submit an Abstract for either a Paper Presentation, or for an Interactive Workshop Session consistent with this year’s conference theme. Some of these share practices related to the following: • Educators adapting to changes and challenges (including technological, economic and social) • Innovative approaches educators ‘on the edge’ are implementing to improve student learning • Cutting-edge, creative and innovative practices, nationally and globally. Abstracts received for a Presentation, or for an Interactive Workshop Session were reviewed and, if accepted, were enabled to become full Papers and / or presenters were provided with an option of submitting a Paper related to their Workshop Session with publication in this Conference Proceedings. A panel of reviewers, consisting of education experts, was established and they assisted in constructing meaningful feedback to both the successful and unsuccessful authors. We acknowledge the contributions, efforts, feedback and wisdom of: • Professor Nan Bahr • Dr Philip Brown, FACE • Professor Glenn Finger, FACE (Chair, Panel of reviewers) • Dr Kevin Larkin • Dr Frederick Osman, FACE • Professor Parlo Singh • Ms Karen Spiller, FACE • Dr Bill Sultmann, FACE • Mr Greg Whitby, FACE • Dr Gerry White, FACE The response was very strong, with a total of 45 Abstracts submitted, consisting of 22 Abstracts for Paper Presentations and 23 Abstracts for Interactive Workshop Sessions. i The reviews were considered by the ACE 2015 National Conference Working Group in terms of relevance and the range of audiences, and 14 were accepted. This represents a 31 per cent acceptance rate, which provides a measure of quality and a pleasing response to our ‘Call for Papers’. The panel had a very difficult set of decisions as all Papers reviewed had important stories to tell. We trust that you enjoy your engagement in this year’s National Conference, to be able to meet with colleagues, to share ideas, and to be able to draw upon this publication to visit and revisit the stories about ‘educators on the edge’, and reflect on the big ideas for change and innovation. Professor Glenn Finger, FACE and Ms Paola Ghirelli (Editors) ii Table of contents Welcome 1. Professor Stephen Dinham, ACE National President OAM, FACE Keynote Paper Presentations Regulation or deregulation? Observations on education in Germany 3. and Australia Professor Stephen Dinham OAM, FACE The worrying implications of privatisation in schooling and of the review of federation 16. Professor Bob Lingard, MACE Educators ‘on the edge’—how innovative approaches improve children’s learning 20. Ms Rhonda Livingstone Innovative technologies and human rights education 26. Professor Gillian Triggs Concurrent Papers and Interactive Workshop Presentations Leveraging cloud-based technologies to enhance personal learning environments 32. Mr Scott Adamson, Ms Christine Beckmann and Mr Steve Crapnell Big ideas for change and innovation: Internationalising programs in an Australian offshore university campus 37. Dr Robyn Anderson, MACE Conceptualising the challenge of integrating digital technologies in pedagogy 44. Mr Christopher Blundell, Professor Kar-Tin Lee and Dr Shaun Nykvist Big Picture learning: Why this, why now? 52. Mr Chris Bonnor, FACE and Ms Viv White The performance edge: Optimising wellbeing and achievement 62. Ms Catherine Brandon, MACE Understanding creativity and innovation: The power of building a professional learning community that supports staff to lead school improvement 66. Mr Brian Burgess, FACE, Dr Peter Hart and Ms Clare Scollay Contributive leadership: How can you sustain a collegial culture within your organisation? 75. Mr Brett Darcy, MACE iii Leadership on the edge: Big ideas for change and innovation— Exploring the leadership profiles 81. Ms Margery Evans and Ms Julie Hyde Pastoral care in times of high stakes testing and accountability 88. Dr Kate Hall and Dr Judy Smeed, FACE Educators on the edge…Of what? 94. Ms Rachael Heritage, AACE Innovative approaches to the design of inclusive online learning environments 97. Professor Denise Wood, MACE Improving students’ outcomes through the use of assessment diagnostics 106. Mr Alec Young, MACE iv Welcome PROFESSOR STEPHEN DINHAM ACE NATIONAL PRESIDENT OAM, PHD, FACE CHAIR OF TEACHER EDUCATION AND DIRECTOR OF LEARNING AND TEACHING MELBOURNE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (MGSE) UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE VICTORIA Welcome to the Australian College of Educators (ACE) 2015 National Conference—‘Educators on the edge: Big ideas for change and innovation’. The College proudly presents this opportunity for education professionals from all sectors and levels of Australian education to discuss, together with high- calibre experts and influential education leaders, some of the key challenges and potential directions for education in Australia. Increasingly, education is seen to be, and is, in reality a tightly coupled system where changes in any one sector impacts on all others, as well as upon society more generally. Additionally, there are powerful interconnected challenges running through, and across education such as technology, innovation, workforce planning, and the development and maintenance of an equitable, cohesive and productive society. Great emphasis is increasingly being placed on education and educators to solve many of the problems society itself seems reluctant, or incapable of dealing with, and often there are simplistic solutions to the supposed problems of education that are borrowed from the worlds of business, economics and management that have been found wanting elsewhere. In many of the debates about education, educators have been marginalised and policy makers have looked to fundamental and powerful ideological principles such as deregulation, the so-called free market and technology to deliver innovation, change and improvement. In the case of technology there are real challenges for educators as technology itself is moving so rapidly away from our knowledge of pedagogy. In many cases there is blind