Rate My Professor Terry Sullivan

The Nauru Teacher Education Project, in which Dr. Sullivan collaborates with Associate Professor Penelope Serow, Professor Neil Taylor, Greg Burnett, Dianne Smardon, Jodana Tarrant, and others, partners with the Nauruan Government Department of Education and Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. This initiative develops and tests models for advancing teacher education in rural and remote Pacific locations, including Nauru and Tuvalu. It features blended delivery of programs such as the Associate Degree in Teaching (Pacific Focus) and Bachelor of Education (Pacific Focus), incorporating online materials, on-island mentoring, IT infrastructure, literacy and numeracy enabling units, and reflective practices. Empirical evidence gathered since 2011 through interviews, observations, surveys, student results, and professional experience videos supports program refinement. Milestones include the 2016 graduation of 14 Nauruan students. Dr. Sullivan co-authored the 2014 publication 'One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Teacher Education in Developing Pacific Island Countries' in the Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, addressing teacher shortages and program challenges. In 2019, he co-presented 'Rows of desks have gone In Nauruan Infants Classrooms: Has the world gone mad?' at the HASSE Research Week, examining transitions to play-based learning in early childhood settings.