Dr Jeanette Berman
Lecturer, Special Education and Educational Psychology, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Qualifications
BA Dip Ed (UNE), Grad Dip Ed Studies (Nepean), PhD (UNE), MAPS
Contact
| Email: | jberman@une.edu.au |
| Room: | FEHPS (E7) E316 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2237 (or +61 2 6773 2237 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2445 |
I began teaching as a kindergarten teacher (after training for secondary mathematics!) and got hooked on educational psychology and school counselling when I had a student in my Year 2 class who was diagnosed with mild intellectual disability. Her family was offered a segregated class in another school but chose to stay where they were. So I had to come to terms with inclusion very quickly. I was fascinated by the different needs she had at times and pursued this fascination through school counsellor training.
I have worked in NSW and the ACT as a school counsellor and carried out research for my PhD in a school in the central west of NSW. The study involved developing and implementing a dynamic assessment procedure with Year 3 children, that looked at their conceptual understanding of our number system. I compared conventional pencil and paper testing, individual testing and the dynamic assessment to see what differences in information I could access through different procedures. I still use all types of assessment tools including the conventional tests and the dynamic assessment depending on the situation.
I gained my PhD in 2001 and worked as a lecturer here for the next six years. Then I spent three years in the ACT, as a school counsellor, senior counsellor and private psychologist as well as teaching postgraduate Inclusive Education at the University of Canberra. I have recently returned to UNE after some time back in schools and in private practice as an educational psychologist. I love my work with individual children and with their schools. I aim to make the assessment information have an impact for them in their learning.
Publications
Affiliations
Registered Psychologist (NSW)
Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
Australian Guidance and Counselling Association (AGCA)
Australian Association of Special Education (AASE)
Specific Learning Difficulties Association of NSW (SPELD)
International School Psychologists’ Association (ISPA)
International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology (IACEP)
Areas of Teaching
Assessment Practices in Special Education Contexts
Childhood, Adolescence and Learning
Inclusive Education
Learning Difficulties
Research interests
Inclusive Education
Dynamic Assessment
Psychoeducational and classroom assessment
Learning Difficulties and Disabilities