Jan Turbill is a Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia. She began teaching in 1964 for the Department of School Education in New South Wales, teaching Kindergarten - Grade 2 children for 12 years. In 1976 the Department invited her to become a Language Consultant for its schools across the K-12 spectrum in a metropolitan region of Sydney. During the following 9 years in this capacity she was involved in the development and implementation of syllabus documents: Reading K-12 and Writing K-12. It was also during this period that Jan Turbill completed her Master in Education in Linguistics at Sydney University and was made a Fellow of the Australian College of Education for her contributions to early literacy development. In 1985 Jan changed careers and began lecturing in Language Education at the University of Wollongong. She was awarded her PhD in 1993 at the University of Wollongong. In 1996 Jan was invited to spend 4 months as a visiting professor at Hamline University, St Paul, MN, USA, where she was awarded Graduate Teacher of the Year. Jan is presently a Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Education and the Teaching & Learning Consultant in the Faculty of Commerce. She is on the editorial board of several academic journals including Reading Teacher, Reading Research Quarterly for the International Reading Association as well as serving on the Advisory Boards for Kids Insights, (an IRA series publication) and Reading Online (IRA's electonic journal). Jan is also a reviewer for Language Arts (NCTE), the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy (JECL) and the Asian Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. In 2008 Jan was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame (International Reading Association) for her contribution to literacy education.
Articles
Mapping the archive: An examination of research reported in AJLL 2000–2005 (with Pauline Harris, Lisa Kervin, and Kathryn Harden-Thew), Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (2010)
Amidst commissioned research reports and policy reforms in literacy education, this paper examines research reported...
Contributions to Books
Early Literacy and New Technologies in Australian Schools: Policy, Research, and Practice (with Joy Murray), in M. McKenna, L. Labbo, R. D. Kieffer & D. Reinking (Eds.), International Handbook of Literacy and Technology, Volume 2 (2006)
In this chapter, we want to explore why such little change seems to have occurred...
Online Classroom Simulation: using a virtual classroom to support preservice teacher thinking (with Brian Ferry, Lisa Kervin, Sarah Puglisi, Brian L. Cambourne, David Jonassen, and John Hedberg), in A. J. Herrington & J. A. Herrington (eds.), Authentic Learning Environments in Higher Education (2006)
Research consistently shows that traditional preservice teacher preparation programs are not adequately preparing beginning teachers...
Presentations
'So, what did you do?' A performative, practice-based approach to examining informal learning in WIL (with Bonnie Dean and Chris Sykes), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2012)
A growing body of research in work-integrated learning (WIL) demonstrates the importance of industry experience...
The development of an on-line simulation designed to enhance the decision making skills of beginning teachers (with Brian Ferry, Lisa Kervin, Brian L. Cambourne, David Jonassen, John Hedberg, and Sarah Puglisi), in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education (2004)
This paper describes the development of a simulation in teacher education. The presentation we will...
From face-to-face teaching to online distance education classes: some challenges and surprise, Faculty of Education - Papers (2002)
Many educators in higher education are now delivering their courses online. For some however this...