Welcome
My name is Leonie McIlvenny and education is my passion, whether teaching Year 1 students, lecturing pre-service teachers, running professional development / training sessions for teachers, supervising teacher practicums or tutoring one-on-one study skills sessions. I have been involved in the education system for 39+ years and been a primary school teacher, teacher librarian, lecturer, curriculum consultant and writer, online course developer, library consultant and ICT Project Manager to name a few.
I have always tried to be in the vanguard of new educational thinking and was lucky to have been involved in a number of innovative programs (for their time) including the ASP Infrastructure Trial for the Department of Education (WA), Teaching Teachers for the Future (a federally funded research project involving universities from around Australia) a Learning to Learn programme developed at Aquinas College and more recently the Teen Quest programme developed through Genius School that develops essential 21st century skills using an inquiry-based process.
Inquiry Learning has always been central to the work I do and with the introduction of digital technologies as a platform and mechanism for transformational learning I have focused my efforts in the past few years on exploring the affordances of a range of technologies to disrupt and challenge the way we deliver curriculum and inspire children to become self-directed learners. Many of my websites reflect that premise. Developing digital resources to support teachers and students has also been a key focus for the past 15 years. Details of these projects can be found on the Websites page Examples of online resources I have developed include:
* Studyvibe, a website dedicated to supporting students with their research and study skills.
* The Research Safari (designed for middle school students to develop their information literacy competencies)
* The Knowledge Compass ( a series of questioning frameworks to help develop critical and creative thinking)
* Inquiring About the World (an online scientific inquiry unit that is part of the Bachelor of Education Course at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.
* The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Project (which explored how the UN SDGs can be used to develop an integrated unit of work that helps develop key transversal competencies).
* The Professional Teachers Portfolio Challenge which supports teachers to develop a professional teaching portfolio that addresses the Australian Teaching Standards.
I have always tried to be in the vanguard of new educational thinking and was lucky to have been involved in a number of innovative programs (for their time) including the ASP Infrastructure Trial for the Department of Education (WA), Teaching Teachers for the Future (a federally funded research project involving universities from around Australia) a Learning to Learn programme developed at Aquinas College and more recently the Teen Quest programme developed through Genius School that develops essential 21st century skills using an inquiry-based process.
Inquiry Learning has always been central to the work I do and with the introduction of digital technologies as a platform and mechanism for transformational learning I have focused my efforts in the past few years on exploring the affordances of a range of technologies to disrupt and challenge the way we deliver curriculum and inspire children to become self-directed learners. Many of my websites reflect that premise. Developing digital resources to support teachers and students has also been a key focus for the past 15 years. Details of these projects can be found on the Websites page Examples of online resources I have developed include:
* Studyvibe, a website dedicated to supporting students with their research and study skills.
* The Research Safari (designed for middle school students to develop their information literacy competencies)
* The Knowledge Compass ( a series of questioning frameworks to help develop critical and creative thinking)
* Inquiring About the World (an online scientific inquiry unit that is part of the Bachelor of Education Course at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.
* The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Project (which explored how the UN SDGs can be used to develop an integrated unit of work that helps develop key transversal competencies).
* The Professional Teachers Portfolio Challenge which supports teachers to develop a professional teaching portfolio that addresses the Australian Teaching Standards.
