Introducing Dr Jeannette Kavanagh
Following her initial teacher training, Dr Kavanagh has:
- Undertaken six further postgraduate qualifications, including her Diploma in Solution-Oriented Counselling and Coaching.
- Taught and developed curricula at all levels in our education system – primary, secondary and tertiary.
- Designed and run public speaking skills seminars, for a diverse range of clients.
- Provided business development and strategic planning advice to small and medium-sized businesses.
- Established and run her business and educational consultancy DrJeannette Kavanagh and Daughter since 1996. Through that consultancy, Jeannette has offered a range of strategic solutions to clients in business as well as the education sector.
Senior Executive experience
Apart from running her own business, Jeannette has held senior executive positions including that of:
- President,Committee of Management Lupus Australia Foundation Inc,(2004-1999);
- Deputy Director (Policy and Planning) at Box Hill Institute of TAFE,(1991-1996);
- Ministerial Advisor to Minister(s) of Postsecondary Education (1988-1991);
- Manager of Community Education at Holmesglen Institute of TAFE (1984-1988).
Evaluation and Quality Improvement
"Modern man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde 1854-1900.
Dr Kavanagh's academic qualifications and her consultancy work with schools, businesses and other organisations, reflect her lifelong commitment to monitoring and evaluation. She believes passionately that we must know how to measure the value of our efforts – whether in business or in education.
A member of the Australasian Evaluation Society, Dr Kavanagh has designed and offered individualised skills development workshops and seminars on all aspects of quality improvement including:
- Evaluation and Quality Improvement models and methodologies – ways to decide which approach is best for your business or school.
- Collecting and using evaluation data as part of a performance and development culture.
- The role of monitoring and evaluation in the design and implementation of any innovation – in business or government sectors..
- How to set up easy-to-use monitoring techniques, to collect the best and most useful data in the most efficient way.
Educational Innovator
Dual recognition: As a senior executive within the education bureaucracy in the 1990s, Dr Kavanagh represented TAFE on the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Board (VCAB). In that capacity she initiated the first ever discussions about the need to integrate TAFE programs into the newly emergent Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). After initial resistance to that idea, her proposals were embraced and fully developed to become what is now an accepted part of the education landscape: Dual Recognition.
VET in secondary schools: During her time as Deputy Director of Box Hill Institute of TAFE, Jeannette worked with secondary colleges to increase vocational education options for secondary school students. In collaboration with many local schools and departments at Box Hill TAFE, she drafted the first articulation agreements to bring Vocational Education and Training (VET) to local secondary schools.
Credit Transfers across all sectors: As well as that vital work with secondary schools, Dr Kavanagh framed the first strategic alliances between the TAFE sector and Victorian Universities. She negotiated the terms of credit transfers between Box Hill TAFE and Universities in Victoria. Those credit transfer agreements set the national benchmark and became the template for national credit transfers.
Success For Boys
Dr Kavanagh has worked with individual schools and school clusters to help them to gain optimum benefit from this important initiative. Jeannette adapts the Success For Boys resources produced by the Curriculum Corporation to each unique school setting. That individualised approach is a hallmark of Dr Kavanagh's educational consultancy.
Feedback from Schools
Click here for Participants' Comments and details of how teachers and school managers reacted to Dr Kavanagh's Success for Boys workshops.
Boys' Education: Useful Links
Click this link to visit useful websites about ways we can help boys enjoy school more, feel better about themselves and improve their learning outcomes.
Coaching as a Powerful Tool in Behaviour Management
As well as providing peer coaching skills to a variety of clients, Dr Kavanagh believes that coaching is an extremely powerful way to communicate with at-risk students, particularly boys in Years 5 to 9. She is happy to discuss how coaching can be used to underpin the design, implementation and ongoing improvement of your school's behaviour management policy. For more information about Jeannette's focused and efficient approach to coaching please visit The Centre of Effective Therapy.
CONTACT: PO Box 8519 , Armadale, Victoria 3143 Tel 0417 379 684 E-mail: jkavanagh@ains.net.au
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