Dr Michelle Gorzanelli
NSW Professional Experience and Partnership Coordinator, Lecturer in Educational Studies, Course Advisor, Bachelor of Education (Secondary)
Faculty of Education
Areas of expertise: "Physical Education", "Health Education", "School Sport", "Pedagogy", "Curriculum History", "Assessment"
Phone: 9701 4169
Email: Michelle.gorzanelli@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU Strathfield Campus
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9439-3383
Dr Michelle Gorzanelli is currently the NSW Professional Experience and Partnership Coordinator, course advisor of the Bachelor of Education (Secondary) degree, and a Lecturer in Educational Studies in the School of Education. Michelle holds a PhD in Education from the University of Sydney that curated a critical history of Physical Education, Health Education and School Sport through a qualitative discourse analysis methodology. She has extensive experience in lecturing and mentoring pre-service teachers in the teaching area of Health and Physical Activity and preparing pre-service teachers for practicum across Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary degrees. Michelle works closely with the leadership teams of various schools in NSW as part of her NSW Professional Experience Coordinator role. Michelle is also heavily involved with the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA), which is an authentic culminating assessment of pre-service teachers' competence in classroom practice assessed against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL), Graduate Teacher Standards and has supervised students enrolled in the Capstone research project unit. Her status of GTPA Recognised Assessor and HEA Fellow extends her expertise in Learning and Teaching in primary and secondary schools and Higher Education. Michelle has presented at various ACHPER International Conferences on Health and Physical Education and a HERDSA Conference on teaching evaluations in a standards-based environment. Michelle has been awarded the International ACHPER Conference Most Outstanding Paper by a Young Scholar and is committed to an embedded approach to the teaching of academic literacy skills in Higher Education to support pre-service teachers' application of planning, teaching and assessing in Health and Physical Education and all other subject areas.
Select publications
- Springer Book proposal (Accepted)
- Proposed publication date: March, 2024.
- Title: A critical history of Health, Sport, and Physical Education: A three-legged curriculum in Australia.
- Book chapters
- Ardzejewska, K., & Gorzanelli, M. (2020). On-boarding discipline experts to adopt the academic literacies framework. In A. Jones, A. Olds, & J. G. Lisciandro (Eds.), Transitioning Students into Higher Education: Philosophy, pedagogy and practice (pp. 137-150). Routledge.
- Gorzanelli, M. (2012). Addressing body image issues in Australia's health education classroom: A case for a constructivist approach to media literacy interventions, pp. 55-In J.A (Ed), Current issues and controversies in school and community health, sport and physical education. New York: Nova Science.
- Conference presentations and publications
- Robinson, A., Ardzejewska, K., Gorzanelli, M., & Geoghegan, I. (2018). Setting a standard for standards: Conducting teaching evaluations in a standards-based environment. HERDSA Conference Proceedings.
- Gorzanelli, M. (2015). 'The historical butterfly effect of physical education, school sport and health education in Australian schools'. ACHPER Conference Proceedings.
- ** This paper was awarded the 2015 International ACHPER Conference Most Outstanding Paper by a Young Scholar.
- Ardzejewska, K., Campbell, W., & Gorzanelli, M. (2015). Learning to think differently before mastering a new way to teach academic literacy skills. Education Today, Quarterly Journal of the College of Teachers, 17-24.
- Gorzanelli, M. (2013). A history of Health Education in NSW government schools from the early origins to the national curriculum. ACHPER Conference Proceedings.
- Gorzanelli, M. (2011). 'Addressing body image issue in the health education classroom: Can a constructivist approach improve current interventions?' ACHPER Conference Proceedings.
- Gorzanelli, M. (2010). "Teaching body image issues to generation 'Y': Critical theory as an effective pedagogy". ACHPER Conference Proceedings.
- Presentation at the 16th biennial International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport (ISCPES) conference in Macau, China (July 2008).
- Workshop: Teaching Game Sense.
Accolades
- 2015 International ACHPER Conference Most Outstanding Paper by a Young Scholar.
- Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellow
Appointments
- Australian Catholic University (2019-Current): NSW Professional Experience and Partnership Coordinator, Lecturer in Educational Studies, Course Advisor Bachelor of Education (Secondary), Recognised GTPA Assessor, Sessional Academic
- Western Sydney University (2019-2020): Sessional Academic in Education
- Senior Lecturer, University of Notre Dame (2017-2019): Academic Developer, Learning and Teaching Office.
- Australian College of Physical Education (2009-2017): Health Discipline Coordinator, Lecturer in PDHPE and Sessional Academic
- Western Sydney University (2010-2011): Associate Lecturer in PDHPE.
- Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney (2006-2008):PDHPE Teacher K-12.
- St Vincents College, Potts Point (2005-2006): PDHPE Teacher Years 7-10.
