Teacher Education
The Institute provides a series of professional development opportunities for staff inside Wesley College as well as teachers from other schools. Current examples include:
- Category 3 International Baccalaureate workshops
- Indigenous Education professional development programs
- Indigenous Education: Partnerships in Practice; Years 4 and 5 Bunuba Walmajarri unit on Land, Language and Culture
- International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, Diploma or Primary School Consultancies in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Malaysia
- Wesley College and state primary schools consultancies
- Corporate consultancies including Zoos Victoria
Presentations encompass the following areas:
- Leadership
- School management
- Primary years
- Education for intercultural understanding
- International Baccalaureate
- Action research
Teacher Post-Graduate Training
Through the partnerships with tertiary institutions, The Institute delivers International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme and Diploma courses.
R. G. Menzies Fellowships
The R.G. Menzies Research Fellowships for teachers are named in honour of one of Wesley's most famous alumni, Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, (1939-1941 and 1949-1966). The award of a fellowship enables teachers to be seconded from the classroom to undertake research in an area of interest to the Wesley College Institute. Fellowships are awarded for the period of a semester or whole academic school year.
The Institute has awarded two R. G. Menzies Fellowships. The 2008 recipient went on to be offered a senior position in DEECD.
Presentations
The Institute has been represented on a number of bodies and invitational events including the Australian College of Educators Victorian Council, Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), National Curriculum invitational panels and a number of events including:
- 2010 Alliance for International Education Conference, Melbourne
- 2009 Dare to Lead Conferences
- 2009 MELTA (Malaysian English Teachers’ Association) International Conference
- 2008 Association for Australian Researchers in Education conference, Brisbane, Paper presented by Radhika Gorur: Explaining Global Policy Phenomena Using the Small and the Mundane: A Network Analysis of PISA
- 2008 Alliance for International Education (AIE) Conference: Paper presented by Isaac Quist: "Many cultures - One community based on the work resulting from the Wesley College/Fitzroy Valley Partnership, Istanbul Turkey.
Institute members were also involved in:
- 2010 Education Media Awards
- 2009 National Excellence in Teaching Awards
- 2009 Education Media Awards
- 2008 DEECD Victorian Excellence in Teaching Awards (Leadership)
- 2008 MECU Secondary Teacher of the Year Award
- University of Melbourne, Graduate School of Education Awards.
- Panels to discuss Coeducation/Single sex/Parallel education, Generation Y and National Curriculum developments (Stages of Schooling)
- IBCC Curriculum Development
