Name: Graeme Oliver

Position: Deputy Principal, Manager International Programs

Phone: +61 8 8201 5686
Mobile: 0421 059 469
Fax: +61 8 8201 5685

Email: graeme.oliver@flinders.edu.au

Academic Qualifications & Professional Background

• Adjunct Lecturer, School of Education, Flinders University
• Bachelor of Arts - Flinders University (1973)
• Grad Dip Teaching - Adelaide CAE (1976)
• Grad Cert in Professional Learning – Flinders University (2004)
• Leaders 2000 program (DETE, 1995)
• Quality Leaders, Quality Schools program (DETE/UniSA, 1998)
• The Leaders Journey (DECS Learning to Learn Project, 2002)
• EdD – Flinders University (in progress)
• Project consultant to SACE Review Secretariat for Capabilities in SACE feasibility study

Major responsibilities for

• Leadership in the development of the ASMS innovative Maths/Science based interdisciplinary curriculum
• Leadership in the development of teaching and learning approaches that support the aims and goals of the ASMS
• Leadership in the development of international programs at the ASMS appropriate to the student enrolment, student learning and professional enhancement goals of the school.

Project Leadership

• ASMS School Review Working Party (2006-2007)
• ASMS future SACE Pilot Project - Capabilities in the PLP (2007)

Committee membership

• SASPA Curriculum Committee (2008)
• future SACE Principals Strategy Group (2008)
• Inner South District future SACE Reference Group (2007- )
• SACE Review Secretariat - SACE Think Tank (2006)
• DECS Senior Secondary Planning Forum (2006)
• DECS Personalising Learning Reference Forum (2006)
• DECS SACE Review Curriculum and Assessment Working Party (2004/5)
• ASMS/Flinders University Coordinating Committee (2003-)
• ASMS Development Advisory Committee (2003-)
• ASMS Teaching and Learning Leadership Group (2003-)
• ASMS Curriculum Operations Group (2003-)

Published Papers

• "Deep Learning is Risky Business" Shapshots, SSAT Journal, September 2007
• "Scientific Inquiry Promotes Deep Learning" iNet Online Conference, April 2007
• “The Australian Science and Mathematics School: Building Innovation in Senior Secondary Education” National Schools Trust Journal, UK, Feb 2004
• “Innovation and Reform at the Australian Science and Mathematics School” with Jim Davies and John Rice, Education Leaders, Australia, July, 2004
• “School Leadership Unplugged” with Jim Davies and Jayne Heath, iNET On-line Conference, November, 2004

Conference Presentations:

• "Issues in Science Education with an emphasis on Scientific Inquiry Based Learning" Two day teacher development workshop for TATSC and AEI, Bangkok, May 2008
• "Cross-Disciplinary Studies in the future SACE - an opportunity for innovation" SASPA Annual Conference, Adelaide, April 2008
• "Managing School Review with DIAF" Inner South District Leaders Workshop, November 2007
• "Deep Learning is Risky Business" 4th iNet Internation Conference, Beijing, September 2007
• "Kyabram Transforming Schools Learning Initiative" Keynote presentation, Kyabram, Victoria, August 2007
• "Planning for Personalising Learning" ASMS Professional Development Workshop series, 2007
• "Deep Learning through Scientific Inquiry" 14th National Conference of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, Birmingham, UK, November 2006
• "Developing a Personalised Learning Environment" South Australian Centre for Leaders in Education, Leading Teaching and Learning Program, Adelaide, September 2006
• "Pedagogies to Promote Deep Understanding" 3rd International Middle Years of Schooling Conference, Adelaide, August 2006
• "Educating for the new frontiers of science" International Society for the Gifted in Science Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea, February 2006
• “Developing a Rich learning Environment at the Australian Science and Mathematics School” Leading Teaching and Learning Program, South Australian Centre for Leaders, July 2005
• “Who does the real thinking and learning; pedagogies to promote deep understanding in science and mathematics education” Workshop presentation to the 12th International Thinking Conference, Melbourne, July 2005
• “Fighting the flat-lined curriculum” Workshop presentation to the 12th International Thinking Conference, Melbourne, July 2005
• “Developing a Community of Thinking at the Australian Science & Mathematics School” Data4Learning Conference, Adelaide, June 2005
• “Curriculum Reform in Senior Secondary Education” Tasmanian Senior College Educators Group, Hobart, May 2005
• “Who Does the Real Thinking and learning? Developing a Community of Thinking at the Australian Science and Mathematics School” iNet Australia International Networking for Educational Transformation, Workshop presentation, Melbourne. March 2005
• “A Framework for developing Interdisciplinary Curriculum” South Australian Science Teachers Association Annual Conference, April 2004
• “Developing Interdisciplinary Curriculum at the ASMS” South Australian Secondary Principals Association Annual Conference, March 2004
• “Tertiary Selection and the Senior Years curriculum” Curriculum Leaders Forum, DECS, March 2004
• “The Use of Electronic Individual Learning Plans at the ASMS” NAVCON, October 2003
• “Assessment for Effective Learning” CAESA, August 2003

Co-Author of Textbooks

• "Issues in Australian Studies” - Karmenier, Leask, Leverenz, Moore, Oliver, Reid & Rutherford, MacMillan, 1991
• “Issues in Society” - Leverenz & Oliver, Science Press, 1992