Entries by Darryl Butler

PTCWA Outstanding Professional Service Award 2009

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2009 Recipient: Don Boyd

Don Boyd commenced his career as a secondary History and Economics teacher and has had 38 years of education experience which incorporates 28 years of rural education. His senior leadership roles include Head of Department; Principal District High School; Principal Senior High School; District Superintendent; Director Isolated and Distance Education; Area Director and Director Rural and Remote Education.

Don has been a long standing active member of the Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA) and continues to contribute valuable service to the association and its members. His current contribution encompasses the roles […]

Australian Rural Education Award (AREA) 2008

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The Australian Rural Education Award (AREA) is awarded to an individual, institution, organisation or industry for a practical project or achievement which opens up education opportunities for rural people and demonstrates a commitment towards advancing the positive aspects of rural education.

The Australian Rural Education Award:

  • Acknowledges excellence in rural education
  • Recognises the achievements of an individual or group in a rural community
  • Endorses a positive image of rural education
  • Demonstrates a creative approach to meeting the educational needs of rural people

The 2008 AREA winner was Talbingo Public School, with their Clean Green Energy Park project.

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SPERA Conference Proceedings 2008

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The Face of Learning – Generation M: The Mobile Generation KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mal Booth
Creative use of new and emerging technologies at the Australian War Memorial

Mark McCrindle
Changing generations, Emerging Trends: Understanding today’s learners

Andrew Douch
Paving the ICT Desire Paths: Redefining ‘Classroom’

Stephen Crump and Colin Boylan
Interactive Distance e-Learning for Isolated Communities: Finishing the Jigsaw

Lorraine Towers and Amy Hutchinson
The Sound and the Vision: developments in interactive distance education facilitated by satellite broadcast in NSW and the NT.

Stephen Crump, Kylie Twyford and Margaret Littler
Interactive Distance e-Learning for Isolated Communities: […]

SPERA Conference Proceedings 2007

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Collaboration for Success in Rural and Remote Education and Training KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

John Pegg
Developing a national holistic approach to addressing issues in rural and regional school education

Andrew Wallace and Colin Boylan
Reawakening education policy and practice in rural Australia

Matt Benson and Terry Waldron
Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council

REFEREED PAPERS

Colin Boylan and Ingrid Koreneff
Going up country: tree change teachers

Colin Boylan and Andrew Wallace
Reawakening education policy and practice in rural Australia

Tania Broadley
Teachers using a digital curriculum

Hernan Cuervo
Rural school principals’ perceptions of social […]

SPERA Conference Proceedings 2006

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Community, Diversity and Innovation in Rural and Remote Education and Training KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Angela Cooke, Wendy Fletcher
The why and how of provision of online extension programs forhighly able / gifted students in rural schools in Tasmania

Marietta Sansom-Gower
The benefits of online programs for gifted students from rural schools – a support teacher’s perspective

Anne Hampshire
Rural and Regional Australia: Change, Challenge and Capacity

Dennis Mulcahy
Current Issues in Rural Education in Newfoundland and Labrador

REFEREED PAPERS

Pam Bartholomaeus
Linking place and effective literacy teaching

Dianne Boxall
An Application of the Theory of Planned […]

SPERA Conference Proceedings 2005

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Our Stories: Innovation and Excellence in Rural Education KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Steven Arndt
Creating Collaborative Communities – The Regional South Australian Experience

Michael Christie
Local versus global knowledges: Resolving a fundamental dilemma in ‘Remote Education (Refereed).

Peter Kenyon
C.R.E.A.T.E. – Creating Rural Entrepreneurial Attitudes through Education

Tony Richards
IDL – Interactive Distance Learning in the Northern Territory

REFEREED PAPERS

Colin R Boylan
Designing a course in rural education

Bronwyn Ellis, Digby Wilson & Janet Sawyer
Summer school at a regional university campus: just completing a course, or a rich learning experience

Ted Munsch and Colin […]

SPERA Conference Proceedings 2004

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Working Together: Staying Vital

Official Opening Address by
His Excellency Lieutenant General John Sanderson, AC,
Governor of Western Australia

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Stephen Kemmis, Marianne Atkinson and Roslin Brennan Kemmis A.M.
Indigenous Education: A Collective Task for all Australians

Murray Lake, David Platt and Grant Draper
From Conference Resolution To Project Implementation: ABCDE – A Strategy For The Revitalisation Of A Rural Community

John Edwards and Bill Martin
Creating Magnificent Schools and Productive Futures – Ways Forward for Rural Education

REFEREED PAPERS

Colin R Boylan
The state of rural education in pre-service teacher education courses

John […]

SPERA Conference Proceedings 2003

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Global Focus – Local Partnerships KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

John M Bryden
Some links between economic and social changes in rural areas and the need for reform in rural education

Jack Shelton
Consequential Learning

REFEREED PAPERS

Pam Bartholomaeus
Rural ABCs and Genres? Learning literacy in a rural school

Colin Boylan & Andrew Wallace
Curriculum organisation in a rural secondary school

Rachael Cornius-Randall & Colin Boylan
Creating and managing a caring environment:Pastoral care in action

Roger Edmonds
The SIASOTA Project: The Making Of A ‘Live’ Online Learning Community

Bronwyn Ellis & Joy Penman
From the margins […]

SPERA Conference Proceedings 2002

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Country Class

Pam Bartholomaeus
Rural education and rural communities: Gifts for our Young People

Colin R Boylan and Andrew R Wallace
Beyond the Line: Promoting Country Schools

Gail Dobbin
From College to Cowshed: Beginning teachers in rural schools

Bronwyn Ellis, Janet Sawyer, Maureen Dollard and Dianne Boxall
Working as rural academics

Sharman Glover-Milne
From Big Sky Country USA to the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

Glenice Hancock
Flying High in Rural Education: Educating Students in the 21st Century

Steve Hicks
Help Yourself

Harry Moate
Industrotech: School/Industry Link. An initiative of Jamestown Community […]

SPERA Conference Proceedings 2001

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Providing Quality Education and Training for Rural Australians KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Paul Herschell
Why aligning curriculum and assessment in new times is ultimately a pedagogy question

Mike Frost
VET in rural schools.

Faith Trent
Aliens in the classroom?

REFEREED PAPERS

Kennece Coombe and Joy Lubawy
Learning partnerships in rural early childhood settings

Roger Edmonds
Cut your teeth on online collaborative projects

Bronwyn Ellis, Nancy Cooper and Janet Sawyer
Bridging studies: An alternative pathway to university for rural Australians

Robyn Eversole
Regional university access: A case study from the south west

Annette Green and Erica […]

SPERA Conference Proceedings 2000

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Dawning of Opportunity

Luke Baills, Sherrin Bell, Bridget Greensill and Louise Willcox
Bridging the gap between beginning teachers and isolated/rural communities

Betty Baram
Workshop: Convergence of distance education and mainstream schooling – increasing opportunities for rural and isolated learners

Marg Beagley
Flexible delivery: initiatives and innovation

Hedley Beare
‘Now, Year Ones, this is your life!’ Preparing the present generation of students for a world of shrinking distances

Don Boyd
Experimenting with the development of electronic course materials

Colin R Boylan and Andrew R Wallace
An analysis of classroom interaction patterns in satellite delivered letters

Charles […]