Rate My Professor Anne Bellert

Dr. Anne Bellert is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University. She earned a Bachelor of Teaching (Primary) from the University of New England in 1994, a Bachelor of Education (Special Education) from UNE in 1998, a Doctor of Philosophy from UNE in 2012 with a thesis titled 'The Effects of Improved Automaticity in Basic Academic Skills: A Study of Learning Difficulties in the Middle-School Years,' and a Master of Leadership with Distinction from Monash University in 2022. With more than ten years as a classroom teacher, support teacher, and school advisor in regional New South Wales schools, she entered tertiary education in 2014 as a Lecturer in Inclusive Education at Southern Cross University, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. In August 2022, she became a Senior Lecturer in the Learning Intervention team at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education while holding her adjunct position at SCU. She serves as Course Coordinator for the Graduate Certificate in Education - Learning Difficulties and co-convenor of Learning Difficulties Australia’s Consultants Committee.

Bellert’s research centers on inclusive education, with a focus on developing automaticity in basic academic skills such as literacy and numeracy for students with learning difficulties. Her interests encompass reducing cognitive load, working memory dynamics, and interventions like QuickSmart Numeracy, which yield effect sizes of 0.60 to 0.94, indicating two to three years' growth in one year. Notable publications include 'Sustainable Learning' (2015, cited 116 times), 'QuickSmart: A basic academic skills intervention for middle school students with learning difficulties' (2007, 97 citations), 'Difficulties in reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities' (2004, 92 citations), 'Still ‘minding the gap’ sixteen years later: (re)storying pro-environmental behaviour' (2018, 90 citations), and contributions to 'Responsive Teaching for Sustainable Learning: A Framework for Inclusive Education' (2023). In 2008, she received the Learning Difficulties Australia Student Award for 'Narrowing the gap: a report on the QuickSmart mathematics intervention.' Her contributions promote sustainable learning—learning for all, teaching that matters, and learning that lasts—through evidence-based practices.