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Ms Anne Taib


Lecturer, CALT
Program Manager - CLEAR Project


Phone +61 3 990 31197
Email Anne.Taib@calt.monash.edu.au
Office C3.10, Caulfield Campus
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Profile

Anne is a lecturer and project manager within the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching. This position draws upon her twenty-eight years of experience as a practitioner in international education and brings together expertise she has acquired in the areas of teacher education, English language teaching, intercultural communication, language assessment, materials writing, educational leadership, internationalising the curriculum and engaging with diverse learners, particularly those from the South East Asian region.

Anne has held a range of positions in higher education and specialist training contexts particularly working with international teachers, professionals and postgraduates sponsored through development assistance bodies such as AusAid, the Asian Development Bank and the Defence Cooperation Program. While most of her professional experience has been in Australia, she has regularly delivered teacher in-service training in South East Asia where she has long-standing personal and professional links. Anne's early career experience was as a secondary school teacher in Malaysia.

Other formative professional influences include positions at the University of Melbourne (Hawthorn campus), the Defence International Training Centre, Monash Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Trinity College Education Foundation; the Monash ANZ Centre for International Briefing, Monash College Group, RMIT and the Council of Adult Education.

Anne is committed to learner-centred, collaborative teaching approaches, experiential education and active learning and she has a particular interest in developing strategies to address the challenges of teaching and learning in global and transnational contexts.

Position Information

Anne's current role at CALT is to manage the implementation of the Communication and Language Enhancement for Academics and Researchers (CLEAR) project. This involves leading the CLEAR team in the design and delivery of programs which assist Monash staff across campuses to develop effective intercultural, communication and teaching skills. 

Other aspects of her work include the delivery of the Sessional Staff Essentials Program (STEP), the development of curriculum for the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, membership of the Monash University Internationalising the Curriculum Taskforce and the YULENDJ – Advancing Indigenous Voices in Education working party.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Graduate Diploma of Education (TESOL), Master of Applied Linguistics (completing 2009)

Recent Educational Resources Development

  • The Spoken English and Communication Skills Program Instructor Manual: A CLEAR project learning and teaching toolkit.  (2008)
  • The Models and Mentors Series DVD Exploring Successful Teaching Practices at Monash University Taib, A. Ogeil,L. (2008)
  • The Australian English Language Course (AELC) Books 1 – 3, Students’ Book, Teachers’ Book, Phases 1 – 3 (Defence International Training Centre, Taib, A contributor) A learning and teaching series developed for South East Asian Regional language schools through Defence Cooperation Program (DCP)

English Language Assessment Tools

  • The English Communication Skills Assessment for Academics (ECSAA) (2007) 
  • The Engineering Studies English Skills Assessment (ESESA) (2009)

Book (pending)

Taib, A.  Hurley, S.  Hamilton, J.F.  A Guide to IELTS for Australia, Insight Publications Pty.Ltd. for release in Australia and China in 2009.

Recent Project Funding Grants

  • $200,000, Monash Education Portfolio Strategic Initiative: CLEAR Project (Communication and Language Enhancement for Academics and Researchers), (2007). Project Leader: Dr Lorraine Bennett, Project team: Taib, A, Kalashnik, O.
  • $160,000, Monash Education Portfolio Strategic Initiative: CLEAR Project (Communication and Language Enhancement for Academics and Researchers), (2008). Project Leader: Dr Lorraine Bennett, Project team: Taib, A, Maxwell, O.
  • $148,000, Monash Education Portfolio Strategic Initiative Monash Passport: CLEAR Project (Communication and Language Enhancement for Academics and Researchers), (2009) Project Leader: Dr Lorraine Bennett, Project Coordinator: Taib, A.
  • $190,820. Leadership for Implementing Improvements in the Learning and Teaching Quality Cycle: Leading Excellence. Australian Learning and Teaching Council Excellence in Learning and Teaching Project 2006 – 2008, Project Leader: Dr Lorraine Bennett, Monash University; Project Team: Gilbert K, Johnson P, Lueckenhausen G, Maxwell O, Pittard N, Santhanam E, Spratt C, Taib A and Wayland C

Recent Conference Presentations and Publications

  • Taib, A. & Maxwell, O. (2008) The language of problem – based learning facilitation: Assisting the medical educator in a culturally diverse environment Third interdisciplinary symposium Intercultural Clinical Communication in Health Professional Education. University of Melbourne. February 2008.
  • Taib, A. & Kalashnik, O. (2007) Am I making myself CLEAR? –Tackling staff / student communication issues in a trans-cultural higher education environment. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Diversity in Communities, Nations and Organisations. July 2007, Amsterdam,Holland.

 

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