As you may have read in previous posts, Dad spent most of his adult life in the Education Department of Western Australia.
Our childhood was spent moving around the WA countryside every 2 years, while Dad was promoted.
He went from teacher in 1956, to deputy, to Principal, to Superintendent, to Regional Director of Goldfields, then of the North West, then through most of the regions of the metropolitan area. His last post was as Director of Operations in Silver City (education head office) in East Perth, retiring in the late 1980s.
Here's a shot of the graduating class from Claremont Teachers' College, Perth, in around 1955...
And a closer view...
In 1982, during one of his stints as a director in the metro area, Dad wrote a paper entitled "The Superintendent and Teacher Development".
It was also known around the traps as "A Taxonomy of Teacher Development".
He wrote it to present at a conference in Hamilton, New Zealand.
I have scanned all the pages and they are below for your reading pleasure.
As far as I can tell, this work is quite unique and original, not to mention still very relevant to today's teaching environment...
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