PhD next for Fulbright winner

Janet McCarroll

by PATRICIA BROOKS
Janet McCarroll, deputy principal of St Mary’s Catholic School, Tauranga, returned from a study tour to the United States late last year, after winning a valuable award.

Janet McCarroll

McCarroll won a Fulbright Meg Everton Professional Enhancement Award in Education on the back of her Masters research in eLearning, focusing on “A Student-Centred Approach
to Assessment and Self Reporting”.
The Fulbright award offered her the opportunity to share her research at the “Building Learning Communities 2014” Conference in Boston.
Mrs McCarroll’s presentations described initiatives in assessment and reporting practices trialled at St Mary’s School, and their alignment to New Zealand’s education curriculum.
She also attended an educational leadership course, “Leadership an Evolving Vision”, at Harvard University with nearly 200 other educators from around the world. She said she found that to be “inspirational and challenging; a personal paradigm-shifting experience, as well as being an exceptional opportunity to meet and network with educators from
around the world”.
To be a recipient of a “Fulbright Meg Everton Professional Enhancement Award” had brought a fresh and global perspective to her educational values, beliefs and practices, she said.
The learning experiences she experienced in the US had inspired her to further her learning, share new understandings, and had enabled her to create valuable \networks with leading international educators.
Mrs McCarroll said she plans to continue with doctoral study, and is excited about new possibilities to share and build upon her research within the Government’s new educational
initiative, Investing in Educational Success (IES).
Mrs McCarroll comes from a family with a long involvement in Catholic education.
Her father, Alwyn Gascoigne, was a noted Cambridge author and her uncle, Fr Dr Noel Gascoigne, was a prominent New Zealand Catholic educationalist, and a Fulbright Scholar in 1950.

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