Dr Kellie Tobin

Vice Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Partnerships 2015, Aspire Program, Deakin University.

Kellie's doctoral research implemented a formative intervention to investigate the collaborative design and development of an initial teacher education unit that seeks to achieve aneffective and enduring school and university partnership. Cultural Historical Activity Theory was used to frame the research problem, which was to investigate how a university and schools can work across their organisational boundaries to think and work in new ways that will support a more collaborative approach in the preparationof teachers for the workforce. Participants were required to collaborate in a structured and cyclical way to envisage new ways of planning and preparing curriculum for an initial teacher education unit.

Findings from this research have contributed new understanding about the manifestation of tensions and contradictions experienced by schoolteachers and university-based teacher educators in the co-design and development of curriculum, offering considerable organisational learning potential for ITE, boundary crossing research and improved student learning outcomes.

Kellie is currently aligned with a number of DET tenders focus on innovative Initial Teacher Education

Kellie was the Chief Investigator on a HEPP-funded research project ASPIRE - investigating strategies to improve school student access to higher education.

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• (2016) AARE TERI Sig - Educating Teachers: Innovative Perspectives in Professional Experience.  Noosa, Australia.
• (2015) Deakin University Access and Equity Youth Conference - Presenter: Raising Aspirations to Higher Education - ASPIRE.  Geelong, Australia.
• (2015)  ATEA Conference - Presenter with Associate Professor Damian Blake: Deakin University Teaching Academies. Darwin, Australia.
• (2015)  Presenter/Facilitator - Deakin University Aspire Launch.  Geelong, Australia.
• (2014) AARE Conference - Presenter: Crossing Boundaries and Building Enduring Partnerships in Initial Teacher Education.  Adelaide, Australia.
• (2013) AARE Conference - Presenter: School Centres for Teaching Excellence.  Sydney, Australia.

• Aspire in the Media - Things looking up for learners at all levels http://geelongindy.com.au/2016-07-27/things-looking-up-for-learners-at-all-levels/

• ACDE Partnership showcase : The Teaching Academies (formerly SCTE) aim to create more seamless transitions between universities and schools. The program is believed to be a world first - www.acde.edu.au/videos/

• AITSL Showcase -  Quality school/university partnerships   http://www.aitsl.edu.au/docs/default-source/video-transcripts-resources/site-coordination-quality-school-university-partnerships-transcript.rtf?sfvrsn=2

• Kids Aspire to Uni: Degrees of success for Corio students.  http://geelongindy.com.au/indy/2012-05-11/kids-aspire-to-uni-degrees-of-success-for-corio-students/

• DET SCTE showcase http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/partnerships/Pages/partnernationalsteach.aspx

• AEU News Issus 7 Term 4 2012 - Eruption of New Talent  https://issuu.com/aeuvic/docs/news_7_2012_complete_lo_res/22

2015 - Vice Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Partnerships, Aspire Program, Deakin University