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Dr Maree Hays

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2734
Email: a.hays@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML16.124  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9235-912X

Maree is a Lecturer in Secondary English for the School of Education.

Background

Maree has extensive teaching experience at both the secondary and tertiary levels and is passionate about developing students' engagement with, and enjoyment of, Secondary English, Literature and Literacy.

Maree is the Coordinator of multiple core curriculum Secondary English units in ECU's School of Education, working across the Bachelor of Education Secondary, Master of Teach Secondary and Postgraduate Education courses.

Current teaching

  • LAN6601 - Introduction to Secondary English Teaching
  • LAN6602 - Planning and Teaching Secondary English
  • LAN2250 - Introduction to Secondary English Teaching
  • LAN2251 - Planning and Teaching English 7-12
  • LAN6711 -  English Education Foundations
  • LAN6712 -  Secondary English Education
  • EDU4120 - Literacy in Teaching and Learning
  • EDU6120 - Literacy and Numeracy in Teaching and Learning

Professional associations

  • ETAWA - English Teachers' Association of Western Australia
  • TRBWA - Teachers registration Board of Western Australia
  • Golden Key International Honour Society

Awards and recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2017 - Vice Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
  • 2015 - Vice Chancellor's Award for Programmes that Enhance Learning

Other

  • 2021 - Dr Susan Holland Scholarship

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2023.
  • Master of Education (specialisation in literacy education), Edith Cowan University, 2016.
  • Graduate Diploma in Education, The University of Western Australia, 1997.
  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Western Australia, 1995.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Moon, B., Harris, B., Hays, M. (2021). Secondary curriculum literacy and teacher word-knowledge: Further findings from a Western Australian ITE cohort study. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 46(11), 89-109. https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2021v46n11.6.
  • Adam, H., Hays, M., Urquhart, Y. (2021). The exclusive white world of preservice teachers’ book selection for the classroom: Influences and implications for practice. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 46(8), 51-69.
  • Coventry, T., Hays, M. (2021). Nurse managers’ perceptions of mentoring in the multigenerational workplace: A qualitative descriptive study. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 38(2), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.37464/2020.382.230.

Journal Articles

  • Merga, M., Hays, M., Coventry, T. (2020). Nurse managers’ perceptions of barriers to the mentoring of early career nurses. Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 28(1), 60-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2020.1737778.

Journal Articles

  • Moon, B., Harris, B., Hays, M. (2019). Can secondary teaching graduates support literacy in the classroom? Evidence from undergraduate assessments. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 44(8), 74-101. https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2019v44n8.5.

Journal Articles

  • Hays, M., Sharp, S. (2018). Supporting postgraduate coursework students through their time of transition. International Studies in Widening Participation, 5(2), 40-54.

Conference Publications

  • Sharp, S., Hays, M., Drpich, S. (2016). Bridging the online gap in enabling education: Counteracting the disconnect. Proceeding from FABENZ conference 2016 (24p.). FABENZ.

Conference Publications

  • Sharp, S., O'Rourke, J., Lane, J., Hays, M. (2014). Cohesion, coherence and connectedness: The 3C model for enabling-course design to support student transition to university. AARE-NZARE 2014 Speaking back through research (14-28). AARE.

Research Projects

  • Nurse Managers' perceptions of intergenerational mentoring, WA Nurses Memorial Charitable Trust, Grant, 2018 ‑ 2019, $5,142.
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