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Associate ProfessorJane Abbiss

Associate Professor

School of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

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  • Associate Professor
    School of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
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TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

I teach across a range of Graduate Diploma, Postgraduate and Masters-level courses in initial teacher education, including the supervision of professional practice. I have also taught for a number of years in Masters research methods courses and the 2-year taught component of the Doctor of Education (EdD).

 

Courses:

TECS333/433 Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 1: Teaching Subject for Junior Secondary

TECS334/434 Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 2: Teaching Subject for Senior Secondary

TECS335/435 Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment 3: Contemporary Developments in Secondary Education

TEPI313/413 Professional Learning and Inquiry 1

TEPP313/413 Teaching Professional Practice 1

TEPP314/414 Teaching Professional Practice 2

EDUC795 Doctor of Education

EDEM693 Introduction to Methodologies and Ethics in Educational Research

EDEM697 Qualitative Research in Education, Health and Human Development

 

I have supervised 20+ research projects for Doctoral and Masters students. 

 

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Adapting Professional Development Models for ESL Teachers to the Central Highlands of Vietnam: A Systematic Review of Evidence and Contextual Analysis
    1 Aug 2025 - 1 Oct 2026
    Nguyen, Duc Dang Tu
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Ako Anamata: Ed Talks
    12 Oct 2021
    Presentation title: Practice-oriented teaching and assessment: Finding relevance and enhancing scholarship
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring New Zealand secondary school literacy coordinators’ experiences of implementing the NCEA Literacy Corequisite Policy
    1 Feb 2021 - 4 Dec 2025
    Dyne, Katrina
  • PROGRAMME DEVELOPED
    GradDipTchgLn (with Primary and Secondary endorsements)
    1 Feb 2021
  • PROGRAMME DEVELOPED
    MTchgLn (with Primary and Secondary endorsements)
    1 Feb 2021
  • PROGRAMME DEVELOPED
    PGDipTchgLn (with Primary and Secondary endorsements)
    1 Feb 2021
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    History in Schools panel discussion, Canterbury Historical Association
    26 Aug 2020
    Invited speaker. Presentation title: "Knowledge worth knowing": New Zealand history and curriculum.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Teaching English Language Learners: Policy and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand primary schools
    25 Feb 2019 - 28 Nov 2025
    Anthony, Judith
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring adolescent literacy experiences through vocabulary learning and self-efficacy in reading and writing
    1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
    Briggs, Susan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Global Competency: preparing youth for an inclusive and sustainable world
    1 Jan 2019
    Parkes, Sue
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Secondary teacher collaboration in open, shared teaching and learning spaces
    1 Jan 2019 - 13 May 2024
    Taylor, Megan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Second language teacher educators' pedagogical practices: A cultural-historical approach to synchronise theory and practice in the learning environment
    1 Jan 2017 - 6 Apr 2022
    Vides Contreras, Osmith
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Teachers’ perspectives of the impact of Government initiatives and strategies on their teaching of Māori and Pasifika learners
    1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2018
    Stewart, L
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    More than just results. What leadership actions help establish effective use of data?
    1 Jan 2015 - 16 Feb 2024
    McKenzie, Dean
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Robo girls: Exploring the impact of educational robotics experiences on girls’ STEM identity
    1 Jan 2015 - 5 Aug 2024
    Pears, Jill
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The implementation of a junior Samoan language programme in a South Island, New Zealand secondary school
    1 Jan 2014 - 15 Aug 2022
    Bland, Angela
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Bangladeshi Secondary Teacher Educators' experiences and understandings of communicative language teaching
    1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2011
    Mazumder, S
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The dilemma of listening and aural skills within year 11 music programmes in the New Zealand Curriculum
    1 Jan 2010 - 1 Jan 2015
    Aburn, R
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring commitment of secondary teachers in Seychelles
    1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2013
    de Comarmond, O
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Shifting thinking, shifting approaches: Curriculum and facilitating change for secondary teachers of English language learners
    1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2014
    Fry, J
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Understandings of under achievement in gifted and talented students
    1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2014
    Tapper, L
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Sustainability education in Aotearoa/NZ: theory, practice and possibility
    1 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2013
    Fitzgerald, L
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Language learning in transition - the experiences and attitudes of Year 9 language learners in a New Zealand high school
    1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2009
    Jacques, A
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Learning to Teach in Another Language and Culture
    1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2010
    Robinson, R
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The experiences of year 10 students in a sexuality education programme
    1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2012
    Fenton, M