Jenny Wilkinson has extensive experience in education and educational
administration. This experience covers four different educational systems in three
different countries (Australia, Germany, United States of America.) She has taught at
primary, secondary and tertiary level and has represented Australia as an International
Teaching Fellow. She is also an experienced educational researcher. 

Ms Wilkinson has conducted research and prepared reports for a variety of ACER projects,
including the MindMatters Plus evaluation, the ReachOut! evaluation, the Access to
Excellence evaluation and the ReStart evaluation. She assisted in the development of the
pilot program of the Verification and Accreditation Process of the Performance and
Development Culture in Victorian government schools and participated as an assessor and a
panel trainer in the National Awards for Quality Schools. She is a benchmarker, assessor
and trainer in the Schools First scheme, which is administered by ACER. 

Ms Wikinson was a member of the ACER research team commissioned by the New Zealand
Ministry of Education to investigate secondary teacher workload and to conduct a work
study of primary teaching in New Zealand. She has prepared many other reports and case
studies of schools in different Victorian sectors. 

Ms Wilkinson is currently participating in the Evaluation of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
Trial project in the Solomon Islands.

Books

Research on Performance Pay for Teachers (with Lawrence C. Ingvarson and Elizabeth Kleinhenz), Dr. Lawrence Ingvarson (2008)
 

Articles

Reaching their potential : what's working with Indigenous students, Teacher (2009)
 

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Managing student behaviour in the classroom (with Marion Meiers), The Digest (2008)
 

Conference Papers & Presentations

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Young, gifted and Indigenous: What can we learn from the North American experience in attempting to meet the needs of gifted Indigenous students in Australia?, Dare to Lead National Conference (2008)
 
Teacher workload and effective teaching : what do teachers think? (with Elizabeth Kleinhenz), AERA Annual Meeting (2007)
 

Reports

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Studies of Asia in Year 12 (with Gina Milgate and Asia Education Foundation), Teaching and Learning and Leadership (2009)
 

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Supporting New Teachers In Victorian Schools : Making The Teacher Registration Process An Opportunity For Professional Learning (with Elizabeth Kleinhenz and Lawrence Ingvarson), Teacher Education (2008)
 

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The review of teacher education for languages teachers : final report (with Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Margaret Gearon, Suzanne Fernandes, and Lawrence Ingvarson), Teacher Education (2007)
 

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Research on performance pay for teachers (with Lawrence Ingvarson and Elizabeth Kleinhenz), Teacher Workforce and Careers (2007)
 

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The VIT Program for Supporting Provisionally Registered Teachers : Evaluation of Implementation in 2005. (with Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, and Siek Toon Khoo), Teacher Education (2007)
 

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