School of Teacher Education
Tracey Simpson
Adjunct Lecturer
TeachCert, NSWDET, DipEd EC, MacqU, BA, MacqU, MEC, MacqU
Tracey Simpson
Charles Sturt University Faculty of Education
Dubbo, NSW, Australia
Email Tracey SimpsonResearch
Research Areas of Interest
- Policy and practice in early childhood programs
- Parent and family involvement in children’s services and schools
- Communities and children’s services
- Early Education Curriculum
- Rural Children’s services, responses to current issues in early childhood
- Professional experience programs in teacher education programs
- Professional development of early childhood educators
- Links between practice and research in early childhood education
- Transition between home and children’s service and school
- Rights of Children, Child Protection
Teaching
- Early Childhood (Birth to Five Years & K-Yr 6) Teaching and Learning
- Professionalism, Ethics and Social Justice
- Leadership and Management
Professional Engagement
- Early Childhood Australia (NSW Branch)
- CONTACT Inc. Project for Isolated Children
- New South Wales Children’s Week Association
- Australian Association for Research in Education
- Australian Teacher Education Association
- Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (US)
- Early Childhood Australia (NSW Branch) (formerly the Australian Early Childhood Association)
- State Executive Committee 1996 – present
Convenor of National Working Parties: - Guidelines for consulting with young children;
- A National Early Childhood Professional Organisation
National Reference Group: - Early Years of School
- Central West and Far West Regional Group Spokesperson 1997 – present
- Working Party for the Review of the New South Wales Centre Based and Mobile Children’s Services
- Regulations, Department of Community Services, 1997
- Australian Journal of Early Childhood, reviewer of articles/research 1995-present
Wider community
- Member of the NSW Department of Community Services Children’s Services Qualifications Committee 2000-present
- Member of the NSW Children’s Forum (ECA representative) 2003
- Member of the NSW Department of Community Services, Office of Childcare, Early Childhood
- Curriculum Framework Project Steering Committee 1999, 2000, 2001
- Member of the TAFE NSW Industry Reference Group 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Orange and District Early Childhood Directors’ Group 2000-present
- Kelso Schools as Communities Project
- Leading Learners, Department of Education and Training, Orange District 2002-present Mentor for program.
- Professional Experience Council (previously) Early Childhood Practicum Council of NSW 1995 – 2002
Publications