See John Graham’s summary of Professional Voices (2022): published by the Victorian Branch of the Australian Teachers Union
It includes:
- jargon and subject-specific terminology
- proper nouns, acronyms and nominalisation
- compound and complex sentence structures
- neologisms
Editorial: Re-evaluations: John Graham some quotes
In his editorial “re-evaluations”, Graham notes, “The articles in this edition of Professional Voice cover a diverse range of subjects – climate futures education, pedagogy, staff welfare, school autonomy, autobiographical episodic memory and a re-imagining of schooling reform.”
Alan Reid describes teachers as practical expert educators exercising their professional judgement in the classroom. “This means using a range of teaching approaches including various forms of inquiry-based learning and explicit teaching for the purposes of selecting “the most appropriate approach given the context of her/his students’ learning needs at any point in time”.
Rebecca Collie and terminology regarding mental health: “Feeling good” is about job satisfaction, a sense of vitality at work, and low stress and low burnout at work, while “functioning effectively” covers work engagement and occupational commitment.
John Munro writes about the important function of ‘autobiographical episodic’ memory (AEM) in student well-being and achievement. He defines AEM as: This is what you know from your experiences. It tells you what to expect in any situation, how well you handled similar experiences in the past and how you can deal with issues that arise.
“AEM is stimulated or ‘triggered’ by the situation or context you are in and helps to explain the range of negative emotions and well-being of students during lockdown. Students had AEM experiences to support formal academic learning in the classroom and, separate to these, experiences to support how they lived at home.
Glen Savage questions the “global consultocracy”. “The problem with this is that these ‘answers’ often don’t work or only work in some limited contexts. And they not only privilege the ideas of remote designers over those of local professionals with deep knowledge of their local context, they “can act as powerful disincentives for the profession to generate and share locally-produced evidence”.
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