Kellie Tobin

Position

Lecturer in Education (Applied Learning)

Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department

School of Education

Campus

Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus

Qualifications

Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Melbourne, 1998
Bachelor of Arts, Victoria Univ. of Technology, 1997

Contact

k.tobin@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 522 71031

Biography

Dr. Kellie Tobin is Course Director and lecturer in the Master of Applied Learning & Teaching. Kellie’s current academic role and previous work as a teacher in secondary schools has focused on social justice education. She has worked across various education fields to build access and equity for students, building strong partnerships in the field of Initial Teacher Education. At Deakin University she teaches in the areas of Middle Years Education, teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students and Literacy and Numeracy. Kellie has also served in a range of other capacities including the School Centre’s for Teaching Excellence Site Director, Wannik Strategy Co-coordinator for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students and as a secondary school teacher.

Career highlights

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

Research interests

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.

Affiliations

AARE

ATEA

Conferences

(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.

Media appearances

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

Awards

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

Publications

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2017

Professional experience and project-based learning as service learning

B Eckersley, K Tobin, S Windsor

(2017), pp. 175-192, Educating Future Teachers: Innovative Perspectives in Professional Experience, Singapore, B1

book chapter

Funded Projects at Deakin

Other Public Sector Funding

Deakin University - Master of Applied Learning and Teaching (Secondary) - 2021 and 2022 Cohorts.

Prof Damian Blake, Dr Kellie Tobin, Dr Cheryl Ryan, Dr Adam Usher, A/Prof Amanda Mooney, Ms Juliet Austin