BEd (CCAE), MEd (Syd), DipTeach (KCAE)

Lecturer
Academic area: Learning and Research Development

Telephone: +61 2 9514 5408
Email: Alan.Scully@uts.edu.au
Room: K2-319
Campus: Kuring-gai

A lecturer in the Faculty with a background in primary teaching and learning, Alan Scully has a long-standing interest in field experience in pre-service primary teacher education, and is currently responsible for the coordination of the practicum in teacher education.

Teaching Areas:
Pedagogy in the Primary School with an emphasis on Classroom Management, Strategies for Individualising Student Learning, and Learning in Groups. Developmental Psychology (applied to primary-aged learners). Supervision in the Practicum.

Research Areas:
These activities have encompassed:

* the development of research-based teaching resources in the areas of developmental psychology, learning theory and supervision in the practicum, and
* research and writing in the areas of tertiarty teaching practice, classroom management teaching and learning, and the role of the University academic in the practicum.

Developing and foreshadowed interests include:

* mentoring in the context of tertiary teaching and learning, and
* developing school-wide contexts for student placement in the teacher education practicum.

Publications:
Scully, A. 1996, Feedback is Feedforward: Maintaining Student Motivation, Teaching Excellence - The Practitioner’s Voice Addresses by UTS staff who received Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Technology, Sydney.

Scully, A. 1996, Teaching Students about Classroom Management: the Importance of Active Engagement, Modelling and Reflection, in Nature of the Learner Forum, Board of Studies, New South Wales.

Gowing, R., Donoghue, J., Forbes, J., Mather, J., McGregor, H., Saunders, S., Scully, A., Taylor. E. and Walker, K. 1998, Learning Conversations Thinking, Talking, Doing.
University of Technology, Sydney.

Goninan, M., Schuck, S. and Scully, A. (in press) The Problematic Nature of Academics’ Roles in Practice-based Learning: Perceptions of an Education Faculty, in International Journal of Practical Experiences in Professional Education eds Yarrow and Millwater.