Ms Angelina Ambrosetti Education / School of Education and the Arts

'Valuing Quality Teaching' Student Choice Award 2010 - Faculty of Arts, Business, Informatics and Education

'Valuing Quality Teaching' Student Choice Award 2011 - Faculty of Arts, Business, Informatics and Education 

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Angelina completed a Diploma of Teaching (Primary) at Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (now known as Southern Queensland University) in 1989 and began her teaching career at Caboolture State School.  Angelina completed her country teaching service at Healy State School in Mt Isa before moving to Pacific Paradise State School on the Sunshine Coast.  During her time in Mt Isa, Angelina embarked on a cultural exchange to China with the Department of Education.  She taught spoken English to middle school students at No 1 Middle School attached to East China University in Shanghai for one year. 

Angelina supervised and mentored many pre-service teachers during her time at Pacific Paradise State School.  Many of these pre-service teachers came from the Noosa campus of Central Queensland University.  Due to her  work with pre-service teachers at Pacific Paradise, along with her interest in mentoring relationships in this context, Angelina joined the Bachelor of Learning Management team at CQU in 2005. 

Angelina taught in Queensland primary schools for 16 years before joining the School of Education at Central Queensland University as a lecturer in education. Angelina has undertaken the roles of classroom mentor and Lead Learning Manager with pre-service teachers and is currently a Teaching Schools Coordinator at the Noosa campus.  

Angelina is currently the Vice President of SEAQ

Social Educators Association of Queensland (SEAQ)

Australian Association of Researchers in Education (AARE) - Co-convenor of Special Interest Group Teacher Education and Research Innovation (SIG-TERI)

Angelina is course coordinator for the following education courses:

EDED11353 Learning Management 1

EDFE11015 Embedded Professional Learning 1 (Primary/Early Childhood)

EDCU12014 Sustainable Communities (SOSE)

Angelina is also the Teaching School Coordinator for first year pre-service teachers (Primary/Early Childhood) enrolled in EPL1 at the Noosa Campus

Angelina is interested in the professional placement in pre-service teacher education.  In particular she has a keen interest in the professional relationships that occur between mentor teachers and pre-service teachers during the professional placement. Angelina is also interested in what makes an effective mentor and how this might impact on the future development of quality teachers.  Angelina is also interested in Education for Sustainability and how we as teachers can engage learners in looking after our environment and greater world.

Doctoral Theses:

Reconceptualising mentoring using triads in pre-service teacher education professional placements. 

Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Qld. 

      1. Central Queensland University Office of Learning and Teaching Grant

Recipients: Ambrosetti, A, Dares, G, Birks, M, & Horsley, M.

Funding: $5000.00

Year granted: 2011

Grant Title: Developing a Schedule of Attrition Diagnosis (SAD) for first year education and nursing students.

2. Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching Grant

Recipients: James Cook University

Year granted: 2012

Grant Title: ‘A state systems approach to embedding sustainability into teacher education’

Please note: This grant involved a representative from each university in The State of Queensland that offers a pre-service teaching degree – funding was distributed between the universities.  I was the nominated representative from Central Queensland University to undertake the above titled research.  I was provided with $4000.00 to investigate the embedding of Education for Sustainability concepts into our pre-service teacher education programs.

3. Central Queensland University Seed Grant

Recipients: Dr Sue Davis and Dr Angelina Ambrosetti

Funding: $9810.40

Year granted: 2012

Grant Title: Digital tools for dramatic engagement - Transforming sustainability education for the digital age 

Ambrosetti, A. (2010). Mentoring and learning to teach: What do pre-service teachers expect to learn from their mentor teachers?  International Journal of Learning, 17(2), 117-132.

Australian Association for Research in Education and The Asia-Pacific Education Research Association Conference - Sydney, Australia (2012). Presented the paper 'The impact of preparing mentor teachers for mentoring'.

Teacher Education Diaglogue Conference – Coffs Harbour, Australia (2012).  Presented the paper ‘A new vision of mentoring in teacher education’.

Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference – Hobart, Australia (2011). Presented the paper ‘Mentoring relationships, roles and responsibilities in pre-service teacher professional placements’.

11^th International Conference on Textbooks and Educational Media – Kaunas, Lithuania (2011). Presented the paper ‘The role of mentoring in learning to teach: What impact does professional development have on teacher mentors?’

17^th International Conference on Learning – Hong Kong (2010).  Presented the paper ‘Mentoring and learning to teach: What do pre-service teachers expect to learn from their mentor teachers?’

Learning Management: Pedagogy that Works – Twin Waters, Sunshine Coast (2007).  Presented the paper ‘Using the Learning Design Process in the Classroom’. 

1. Mentoring in pre-service teacher education contexts

2. Mentoring as professional development for teachers

3. Sustainability for Education

4. Learning design and pedagogy