11th International
OOFTAS Collective Symposium

22-23 August, 2024

Call for Papers

The 11th symposium for the OOF-TAS Collective will be held online prior to ECER, which is in Nicosia.

The theme for the symposium is:

Disjunctures and opportunities in teaching out-of-field

Online Symposium

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Cost: Free online

Key dates:

  • Registration opens: January 15

  • Submissions open until: July 19

  • Feedback on submission by: July 26

  • Program released: August 2

  • Release of zoom details: August 2

  • Symposium: August 22-23

To date, research into teaching out-of-field has represented both the problems, disjunctures and challenges of teaching out-of-field, as well as the opportunities that might arise for teachers and students if teachers are supported and enabled to expand their professional knowledge, identifies and relationships when learning to teach out-of-field. Understanding how teacher overcome the challenges of teaching out-of-field is a critical role of research, and how insights from research is shared with government, subject associations, professional development and teacher educators remains an engagement and impact conundrum for the academy.

We welcome national and cross-national research and commentary on the policies, the people, and the effects associated with this phenomenon. Post-graduate students and early career researchers are welcome.

  • Abstracts for the symposium are welcome (see below)

  • Registration (see below): opens in January

  • Registration Cost: No cost for this online symposium

Symposium details:

Online access

Zoom will be used for the two days. Please register below..


Recordings will be made of all presentations but not the discussions. The powerpoint presentations and/or the zoom recordings will be placed on the OOFTAS website after the presentation.

Preparing for the symposium

  1. You are invited to submit your abstract below.

  2. You must register for the symposia, see below.

  3. We will use the online platform, Zoom.

  4. It is preferred that presenters give their presentation in real-time through zoom. If this is not possible to do this because of time difference or expected connection problems, we can play a pre-recorded presentation during the symposium.

  5. A timetable will be created that provides ‘best times’ for the presenters.

  6. With your permission, we would like to upload a recording of your presentation. The content will remain your Intellectual property (IP).

  7. Abstracts can be for individual presentations or a ‘symposium’.

Presenting and participating

  1. Everybody is welcome to attend the presentations. Please register and the zoom links will be emailed to you.

  2. Presentations:

    1. Presentations will be between 15-20 minutes depending on the number of submissions.

    2. Question and answer time will be up to 10 minutes following each presentations. Questions and feedback by the audience can be posed using the Chat function and verbally. In-person participants can also join in on the online chat.

    3. A ‘symposium’ would consist of 3 or 4 related presentations of 15-20 minutes each. There will be is no discussion after each presentation but a single longer presentation about all of the presentations in the ‘symposium’.

Program and recordings

Downloadable program with abstracts: HERE

Presentation 1 Eva Sengschmid | AUSTRIA
Out-of-field teaching in Austria: An analysis of the prevalence at school, teacher and subject level
VIDEO

Presentation 2 Ming Ho & Ning Bo | CHINA
Out-of-field teaching in rural China: Prevalence, causes, and its impacts

Presentation 3 Esti Rahayu | INDONESIA
Out-of-field lecturers by force
VIDEO

Presentation 4 Amie Albrecht & Lisa O’Keeffe | AUSTRALIA
Beyond Qualifications: Identity of Out-of-Field Teachers in Years 7-10 Mathematics in South Australia

Presentation 5 Fiona Yardley | ENGLAND
Not just a definition of out-of-field teaching
VIDEO

Presentation 6 Brendan Hyde | AUSTRALIA
‘This comes with the job’: using micronarratives as an initial exploration of out-of-field teaching in Religious Education (RE) in Australian Catholic schools
VIDEO

Presentation 7 Harleen Singh | UNITED STATES
Navigating Unchartered Waters: A Case Study of Two Out-Of-Field Teachers Over Time
VIDEO

Presentation 8 Jim Van Overschelde & Minda Lopez | UNITED STATES
Objective measures of near- versus far-out-of-field teaching using student achievement data in secondary English
VIDEO

Presentation 9 Minda Lopez & Jim Van Overschelde | UNITED STATES
Teaching Out-of-Field Secondary English: A Case Study of Successful Teachers
VIDEO

SYMPOSIUM

Presentation 10 Helen Watt | AUSTRALIA
Introduction to the Symposium
Who is teaching mathematics out-of-field and why, with what consequences for teachers and teaching?
VIDEO

Presentation 11 Paul W. Richardson & Janette Bobis | AUSTRALIA
Running on empty: Commitment, goodwill and needs
VIDEO

Presentation 12 Kathryn Holmes & Judy Anderson | AUSTRALIA
Professional learning for out-of-field mathematics teachers: Participation, perceptions and preferences
VIDEO

Presentation 13 Jennie Darcy | AUSTRALIA
What is My Job? Challenges for Out-of-Field English Teachers in regional Victorian Classrooms
VIDEO

Presentation 14 John Cripps Clark | AUSTRALIA
Designing a systems response to out-of-field teaching in Technologies Education
VIDEO

Presentation 15 Claire Vickery | ENGLAND
How does personal knowledge shape the lives and professional identities of teachers? A Heuristic Inquiry into teaching Design and Technology
VIDEO

Presentation 16 Barbara McKinnon, John Cripps Clark, Neil Champion, Colin Hopkins, Bridget Blackburn, Jane Coyle, Sandor Kazi, Dan O'Keeffe, & Theo Hughes | AUSTRALIA
Addressing the out-of-field teacher problem in science - an example from a professional teacher association
VIDEO | PRESENTATION

Presentation 17 Ewa Siedlecka, Cassandra Portelli & Simone Richardson | AUSTRALIA
The Mathematics Retraining Program: A Successful Pilot Targeting Out-of-Field Teaching in Mathematics
VIDEO

Presentation 18 Linda Hobbs, Chris Speldewinde, Emily Ross, Susan Caldis, Merrilyn Goos, Seamus Delaney, Connie Cirkony, Janet Dutton, & Greg Oates | AUSTRALIA
Analytical framework for mapping the professional education ecosystem for out-of-field teachers in Australia
Video

Abstract

There are two options for abstract submission - individual papers or symposium (3-4 papers).

Submission of individual papers:

 

Submission of symposium: (3 or 4 papers)

Registration - open

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