John Daley

John Daley is an adult educator.

He is currently a Research Assistant in the School of Education at the University of South Australia, assisting with a University funded literacy project. In 2011 he was working on a separate Commonwealth-funded project on educational leadership in Registered Training Organisations.

John's experience as an adult educator includes:

- 5 years' as a casual TAFE teacher for TAFE New South Wales across the South Western Sydney Institute and at North Sydney Campus. This work involved teaching units in business / personal communication, English language and OHSW.

John was a course co-ordinator at Granville College in 2009 (involving assessment validation, course management and liaising with local workplaces for work experience places for students).

He also received a College Director's Commendation in 2009 for innovative teaching practice at North Sydney Campus, for designing mixed-mode delivery by combining student generated blog content with traditional classroom learning.

Teaching English as a Second Language as an Hourly Paid Instructor at the Port Adelaide Campus of TAFE South Australia (2010-2011). This included assisting in the set-up of the Australian Government's Language Literacy And Numeracy Program to students at Port Adelaide Campus.

John holds the following qualifications:

- Certificate IV in Training & Education from Leadership Learning Dynamics (2011)

- Graduate Certificate in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from the University of Wollongong (2009)

- Master of Education degree, majoring in adult education & training, conferred With Distinction from the University of Wollongong (2005)

- Graduate Diploma in Local Government Management, awarded by Deakin University (2002)

- Graduate Diploma in Librarianship, awarded by the University of New South Wales (1981)

- Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in history and English language, from the University of Wollongong (1980)

His current (adult education) and former (local government) careers have brought him into contact with a wide range of people. He communicates successfully with his students and guides their learning through identifying their learning needs, tailoring programs targeted to those needs, and getting people actively involved in their learning.

John's recent learning experiences as a M.Ed. and GCertTESOL student brought him into close contact with a large number of international students. His experiences in collaborating with them in formal learning and in campus co-curricular activities has shaped many of his attitudes to adult learning. This is reflected in his early research interest in their learning conditions, and continues in much of his TAFE work experiences.

John has also developed an interest in the potential of Web 2.0 to engage learners in collaborative learning. He has developed several weblogs to support his teaching, and he encourages his students to engage in this collaboration; there are links to a sample of these blogs on this CV.

This page was last updated on 14th January 2012