- Writing acquisition, Drawing & Writing Relationships, Early Literacy, Writing Development, Writing, Literacy, and 15 moreTeacher professional development, Teacher Morale, Teacher Status, Writing Instruction, Social Research Methods and Methodology, Teaching and Learning, Professional Development, Employee Morale and Teacher Morale, Education, Writing systems, First Language Acquisition, Multiliteracies, Student Centered Learning, Emergent Literacy, Curriculum Design and Evaluation, and Analyzing Multimodal Textsedit
- Dr Noella M Mackenzie is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Charles Sturt University and an Independent Education Co... moreDr Noella M Mackenzie is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Charles Sturt University and an Independent Education Consultant. Noella’s research has largely focused on the learning and teaching of writing across the preschool and early years of school. She has a particular interest in early multimodal text creation (drawing, talking and writing) and handwriting. Noella is regularly invited to speak to educators about the practical application of her research.edit
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
In this article the status of teaching as a profession and the morale of teachers in Australian schools in the current era provide a framework for the examination of the intent and outcomes of teaching excellence awards. The research... more
In this article the status of teaching as a profession and the morale of teachers in Australian schools in the current era provide a framework for the examination of the intent and outcomes of teaching excellence awards. The research study applied an interpretive research paradigm and used both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The methodology and the theoretical framework were based on organisational and sociological paradigms. Data informing the study were collected from 44 award recipients and 57 of their colleagues between the years 2000 and 2002. Documentation relating to the promotion and process of awards was also examined. The introduction of teaching excellence awards into the school education sector is found to be a reflection of the economic era in which the current education system is situated. The paper concludes that the awards process may be potentially politically manipulative.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Transition has been described as the passage from one place, stage, style or subject to another over time’. Throughout a lifetime a person will move through numerous transitions, many simultaneously. For a young child, two important and... more
Transition has been described as the passage from one place, stage, style or subject to another over time’. Throughout a lifetime a person will move through numerous transitions, many simultaneously. For a young child, two important and overlapping transitions are starting school and learning to write. Each brings new and different processes and expectations for the child. It has been widely acknowledged that successful school transition plays an important role in later school success. However, the idea that starting school and learning to write are two overlapping transitions has not seen the same level of scrutiny. Starting school and learning to write may also overlap, interact or intersect with further transitions involving, for example, parental separation or a change in location. This chapter examines how the starting school transition could affect the learning to write transition.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Charles Sturt University, Albury n this paper the current status of teaching as a profession and the morale of teachers in Australian schools in the current era provide a framework for the examination of the intent and outcomes of... more
Charles Sturt University, Albury n this paper the current status of teaching as a profession and the morale of teachers in Australian schools in the current era provide a framework for the examination of the intent and outcomes of teaching excellence awards. The ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Engineering and Turbine
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Sociology and Linguistics
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Interactive Writing is a teaching strategy which provides opportunities for the explicit teaching of both authorial skills (text structure, grammar and vocabulary) and proofing skills (spelling, punctuation and handwriting) as well as... more
Interactive Writing is a teaching strategy which provides opportunities for the explicit teaching of both authorial skills (text structure, grammar and vocabulary) and proofing skills (spelling, punctuation and handwriting) as well as reading. Children become apprentice writers who work alongside an experienced writer - the teacher. The teacher and children share the authorship, and ownership, of co-constructed texts. Interactive Writing is particularly effective in the first two years of school although Wall (2008) has successfully applied the strategy with third grade students. 'This strategy is designed to utilise what children already know and can do (collectively), to teach them new skills and provide reasons for writing' (Mackenzie, 2010, p. 27).
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Sociology and Excellence
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
One of the most significant changes in literacy education over the last twenty years is our understanding of literacy as literacies or multiliteracies. To be literate in today's world, you must be able to create, interpret and... more
One of the most significant changes in literacy education over the last twenty years is our understanding of literacy as literacies or multiliteracies. To be literate in today's world, you must be able to create, interpret and question 'oral, visual, audio, gestural, tactile and spatial patterns of meaning' (Kalantzis and Cope, 2012, p. 2). This has taken us way beyond the notions of reading, writing, listening and speaking as discrete areas of learning and highlighted the importance of multimodality and critical literacies. Technology has supported this process, making the creation, interpretation and dissemination of multimodal texts possible in ways not seen previously. The introduction of the Australian Curriculum has supported our understandings of contemporary literacies and provided the scaffold for teachers and schools to embrace literacies as tools for learning across all disciplines and life generally. However, it almost seems that in parallel to this shift in ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
An ABS population health survey of 9,000 households on whether young people were meeting guidelines resulted in a D minus report grade. Current guidelines state students aged five to 18 shouldn’t be spending more than two hours per day... more
An ABS population health survey of 9,000 households on whether young people were meeting guidelines resulted in a D minus report grade. Current guidelines state students aged five to 18 shouldn’t be spending more than two hours per day engaged in electronic media for entertainment. Shutterstock April 24, 2018 6.10am AEST Eight things that should be included in screen guidelines for students https://theconversation.com/eight-things-that-should-be-included-in-sc...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
In this article, we briefly consider the 'why, who, what, when' and 'how' of handwriting instruction in the early years of school. Writing is a complex task that involves the expression of one's thoughts, ideas and... more
In this article, we briefly consider the 'why, who, what, when' and 'how' of handwriting instruction in the early years of school. Writing is a complex task that involves the expression of one's thoughts, ideas and knowledge in ways that allow for sharing. Writing is also a process of thinking, and for students it is a major way of demonstrating learning or understanding. While many texts today are multimodal, the written word remains important to most texts and having the ability to express and communicate in a written form is important. Efficient transcription skills allow a writer to concentrate on message creation, while poor transcription skills can disrupt the composition process. While we would suggest that writers in contemporary times also need to develop efficient typing/keyboarding skills, it is handwriting that is the focus of this article.