Griffith University

Cert Teaching (Secondary), B Arts, Grad Dip Cont Education, M Litt., PhD
Senior Deputy Head of School (Professional Practice:Teacher Education)
Program Director, Master of Teaching (Professional Practice)
Contact details for Associate Professor Cheryl Sim

Research expertise

Associate Professor Cheryl Sim‘s  teaching and research align strongly in the area of teachers’ professional learning. Her particular research interests relate to the development and influences on  teachers’ knowledge and the role of experienced teachers as mentors in professional practice settings. She provides leadership in initial teacher education program development, professional practice and history curriculum.

Current grants

• Australian Learning and Teaching Council Grant.- Sim,C, Freiberg, J., White, S., Allard,A., Le Cornu,R. & Carter, B. (2010 -2012): Using Professional Standards: Assessing work integrated learning in initial teacher Education. Host institution: Griffith University.
•  Improving the Practicum Component of Teacher Education (DEEWR): Sim, C. (2008) : Project Supervision: Conversations that Work: DVD and Booklet. Griffith University.
  

Current teaching areas

• Secondary professional experience
• Senior schooling
• Secondary curriculum in studies of society and the environment and history
  

Publications

Books

• Sim, C.R. (2006). A National Overview of Teacher Education in Australia. In Reinstra, G. and Gonczi, A., Entry to the Teaching Profession: Preparation, Practice, Pressure and Professionalism. College Year Book: Australian College of Educators: Deakin West, ACT, 18-22.
• McMeniman, M, Cumming, J, Wilson, J & Stevenson , J & Sim, C (2000), Teacher knowledge in action, in The Impact of Educational Research, DETYA, Canberra.
  

Refereed journals

• Sim, C.  (2011). You’ve either got [it] or you haven’t – conflicted supervision of preservice teachers. Asia-Pacific Journal  of Teacher Education, 39 (2), 1-11.
• McKluskey, K., Johnson, G.,  & Sim, C. (2011) Imagining a profession: A beginning teacher’s story of isolation. Teaching Education, 22 (1), 79-90.
  
• Billett, S, Thomas, S,  Sim, C. , Johnson, G, Hay, S &  Ryan, J (2010) Constructing productive post-school transitions: An analysis of Australian schooling policies. Journal of Education and Work, 23 (5)
  
• Sim, C. (2010). Sustaining productive Collaboration between Faculties and Schools. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 35 (5)
• Reitano, P & Sim, C. (2010) The value of video in professional development to promote teacher reflective practices. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 4 (3)
  
• Corcoran, K & Sim, C. (2009) Pedagogical reasoning, creativity and cooperative learning in the visual art classroom. International Journal of Education through Art, 5 (1)
  
• Sim, C.R. (2006). Preparing for professional experiences incorporating pre-service teachers as communities of practice. Teaching and Teacher Education, 22(1), 77-83.
• Sim, C.R. ( 2004). The Personal as Pedagogic Practice. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 10 (4),351-363.
• Sim, C.R., Dempster, N. & Malezer, B. (2004). Teacher preparation in Indigenous Australian Studies. Curriculum Perspectives, 24, (3).
• Sim, C.R., Wyatt-Smith, C. & Dempster, N. (2002). How well prepared are Australian Teachers to meet the challenge of raising standards of English Literacy? Unicorn ORA, 22.

Refereed proceedings

• Sim, C.R. (2006). Stimulating Methodologies Exploring Discourses of Practice. In Snoek, M., Swennan,A and Valk, J. (eds), Teachers and their Educators Standards for Development. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference ATEE, Amsterdam, 22-26 October, 2005.
• Sim, C.R. (2005). From the interview room to the public arena the role of the emotional response of researchers. Paper presented at the 2004 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, Melbourne.
• Reitano, P. & Sim, C.R. (2005). Providing a space for professional growth through research. Paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) Annual Conference, Bathurst, June.
• Sim, C.R. & McCluskey, K. (2003). Academics researching in schools making first contact. Presented at AARE/NZARE Annual Conference, Auckland, December.

Non - refereed proceedings

• Sim, C. (2009) Project Supervision: Conversations that work -developing professional learning with supervising teachers', in 34th ATEE Conference, Association for Teacher Education in Europe: Palma de Mallorca.
• Dempster, N & Sim, C. (2009), Career Changing Teacher Education Graduates' Attitudes to Leadership Fast-tracking, in British Educational Research Association Annual Conference,BERA: Manchester.
• Sim, C. (2008) Looking forward: Preparing the future teachers of history: Challenges and opportunities, in Looking Back Looking Forward Looking Out: HTAA National History Teachers' Annual Conference: Brisbane.
  
• Sim, C (2008) Re-imagining the subject: Implications for teachers' professional learning, in Re-imagining the nation through the history curriculum and the professional learning of teachers. AARE: Brisbane.
  
• Dempster, N, Sim, C. &  O'Brien, J (2008) Teaching and leadership hopes and realities in the first few years: a comparison of new teachers in Scotland and Queensland, Australia, in British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh
  
• Sim, C.R. & Cooper, M. (2004). Mentoring as commitment without compassion. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Association of Teacher Educators of Europe, Palermo 22-26, October, 2005.
• Sim, C.R. & Wyatt-Smith, C. (2002). The past and future of literacy training for teachers. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, Brisbane, December.
• Sim, C.R. & Malezer, B. (2002). Benefits of teaching Indigenous Australian Studies in a cross cultural context. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, Brisbane, December.

Presentations

• Sim, C.R. (2003). Dealing with Controversial Issues in the Classroom: the Windshuttle Debate. Keynote Address: National Conference of the History Teachers Association of Australia, Brisbane.

Non-refereed journals

• Sim, C.R. (2003). Setting the context for an inquiry into ancient empires. The History Teacher, 41(1), 9-14.

Consultancy

• Sim, C.R. (2002-1994). Member of the Centre for Leadership and Management in Education, Griffith University. I have been involved in various projects as a consultant. This work has been across sectors, schools and nations.
• Sim, C.R. (November 2002). St Peters Lutheran School School Curriculum Review acted as critical friend for Social Science teachers.
• Sim, C.R. (November 2001 & November 2002). Coopers Plains Literacy Initiative: Quality Teacher Program EQ. Provision of inservice leadership in the area of Action Research.

Consultancy reports

• Hoepper, B., Sim, C.R. & Mills, M. (2002). DETYA Project: Final Report of National Seminar on the teaching of Regional and Global History in Schools; Brisbane, April.