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Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) Research Project
Project Title:
Community-based Mentoring: An Exploration of a Model for Supporting and Retaining Teachers in Rural and Remote Communities in Queensland.
Researchers:
Dr Janelle Young, Dr Joy Kennedy and Associate Professor Jeffrey Dorman from Australian Catholic University, McAuley Campus, Banyo.
Background to the Project:
Several studies including the Lunn report (1997) have explored challenges and processes for attracting and retaining teachers in rural and remote settings in Australia. Findings from these studies identified social and professional challenges faced by teachers in these settings. Mentoring, in school settings has been trialled as a means of supporting teachers in particular school or educational settings. However, little research appears to have explored mentoring of teachers in rural and remote settings from an holistic perspective in terms of mentoring as a responsibility of the members of the entire rural or remote community.
This study aims to explore a whole community approach and extends upon findings of the Pilot Study, Moving On: A Review of Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Teaching Personnel in Rural and Remote Communities (Young & Kennedy, 2005) where strategies associated with recommendations of the Lunn report (1997) were reviewed.
The study was based on a belief that both the social and professional aspects of teachers' lives need to be addressed in order to enhance satisfaction and retention of teachers in rural and remote settings.
Please click on the link below to view
the final report.
Community-based Mentoring:
An Exploration of a Model for Supporting and Retaining Teachers in Rural and Remote Communities in Queensland.
A DVD was produced containing information and guidelines about Community-based Mentoring.
This resource can be used by people in rural and remote towns to support and mentor new teachers who come to live and work in the local community.
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