Growing a local teacher workforce with university-school partnership
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This research project investigates the development and enactment of two pilot ‘grow your own’ employment pathways at Whyalla Secondary College and Ngutu College. The pilot ‘grow your own’ projects aimed to create a supportive employment pathway to secondary teaching for SSOs already employed at each school.
Each pilot emerged from the urgent need for the schools to address significant teacher-workforce shortages and to ensureconsolidation and continuance of teaching staff for their sites. For both sites it was important to enable individuals from within their communities who might otherwise have not been able to complete a teaching degree to be supported to do so through partnership with the university. The goal was to recruit individuals who already had ‘identities and relationships within the community that will serve them well in their teaching’ (Burton & Johnson, 2010, p. 377).
This research study will document, track and analyse how the school-university partnerships worked to provide supportive employment pathways that would meet the needs of specific sites.
