Ann France

Ann France

Multi Domain and Student Engagement Leader at St Joseph’s Hawthorn, Victoria

Ann France is a primary teacher with over 20 years’ teaching experience. She is currently teaching a year 2 class and holds the position of Multi Domain and Student Engagement Leader at St Joseph’s Hawthorn, in Victoria. Ann has always had an interest in the power of classroom talk and how focused dialogue can be used to enable her students to engage with deep level thinking.

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Research collaboration: Student engagement and purposeful learning
Research collaboration: Student engagement and purposeful learning

At St Joseph’s Primary School, teachers have had time to better understand how to effectively support each student to be intellectually, behaviourally, emotionally and socially engaged as learners. In last week's article, 3 teachers shared more about this opportunity and in today’s article 2 foundation teachers explain how they’ve benefited from examining their own practice.

Research collaboration: Teachers working to understand student engagement
Research collaboration: Teachers working to understand student engagement

‘As teachers work to address student learning needs, student engagement emerges as a key consideration for effective practice.’ In this article, 3 primary teachers share how being given time and support to explore this aspect of their teaching changed the way they thought about student learning.