The Northern Territory Teaching Schools Program: Exploring the Promise of Partnerships in Regional Professional Experience.

摘要: One of the key challenges for education in Northern Australia is attracting and recruiting teachers who can respond to region at start their careers through professional experience region. For pre-service students regional locations such as Territory these include coping with distance isolation, high staff turnover. In response there are initiatives improve teacher quality promote remote areas options study employment pathways. This paper describes discusses Teaching Schools Partnership, developed 2006, involving teac her-employing authorities Charles Darwin University provide experience. Utilising Wenger Lave’s notion ‘Communities Practice’ a theoretical framework this analyses th e offering resultant partnership practising, mutual engagement joint enterprise both parties. The will outline current conceptual principles Partnership describe practices that have made collaborative successful. Close examinatio n reveals need extend present outlook potentially engage broader scale increased focus on community.