Listening to Country Voices: Preparing, Attracting and Retaining Teachers for Rural and Remote Areas.

Yarrow, Allan|Herschell, Paul|Millwater, Jan

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ERIC Number: EJ597830

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Publication Date: 1999

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Listening to Country Voices: Preparing, Attracting and Retaining Teachers for Rural and Remote Areas.

Yarrow, Allan; Herschell, Paul; Millwater, Jan

Education in Rural Australia, v9 n2 p1-12 1999

Examines the need for better preparation of teachers to live and work in rural Australia. Uses responses from a rural Queensland community meeting to discuss preparation needs related to multiage classrooms, cultural differences, and school-community involvement. Describes a new internship/mentor program at Queensland University of Technology that provides an extended rural student teaching experience. (Contains 26 references.) (SV)

Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Needs, Cultural Differences, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, School Community Relationship, Student Teaching, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Recruitment

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia

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