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Associate Professor Monica Wong

Head of Education NSW
National School of Education

Areas of expertise: mathematics; rational number; fractions; assessment design; quantitative research methodologies; quantitative analysis

Phone: +61 2 9701 4274

Email: Monica.Wong@acu.edu.au

Location: Mount Saint Mary Strathfield

ORCID ID: 0009-0007-7829-5530

Associate Professor Monica Wong is currently Head of Education NSW. Prior to ACU, she has a background in Information Technology with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. After retraining as a secondary mathematics and computing studies teacher, she has taught in primary and secondary schools. At ACU, Monica has taught mathematics discipline and curriculum units and more recently Educational Assessment. Most recently, as Co-ordinator of Accreditation, Monica works with teacher accreditation and registration authorities to accredit all ACU initial teacher education programs. Her research interests include how students acquire understanding of rational number, improving pathways to teaching for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, increasing parental interest in teaching as a career and quantitative methods and analysis. 

Select publications

Book Sections

• Wong, M., Monteleone, C.,Tanti, M. & Lorusso, K. (2023). Practicum experiences in special schools: A case study. In M. Winslade, T. Loughland, and M. J. Eady (Eds.), Work-Integrated Learning Case Studies in Teacher Education Springer. DOI : 10.1007/978-981-19-6532-6
• Monteleone, C., Tanti, M. Wong, M., Weaver. M. & Giamboi, C. (2023). Building Mentoring Relationships: Sustaining Professional Teacher Capacity. In M. Winslade, T. Loughland, and M. J. Eady (Eds.), Work-Integrated Learning Case Studies in Teacher Education. Springer. DOI : 10.1007/978-981-19-6532-6
• Anderson, J., White, P., & Wong, M. (2012). Mathematics curriculum in the schooling years. In B. Perry, T. Lowrie, T. Logan, A. McDonald & J. Greenlees (Eds.), Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2008 – 2011, (pp. 219-244). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• Lipka, J., Wong, M., Andrew-Ihrke, D., & Yanez, E. (2012). Developing an alternative learning trajectory for rational number reasoning, geometry, and measuring based on Indigenous knowledge. In S. Mukhopadhyay & W.M. Roth (Eds.), Alternative Forms of Knowing (in) Mathematics, (pp. 159-182). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• Wong, M., & Evans, D. (2011). Assessing students' understanding of fraction equivalence. In J. Way & J. Bobis (Eds.), Fractions: Teaching for understanding (pp. 81-90). Adelaide: Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) Inc.

Journal Papers

• Tanti, M., Monteleone, C., & Wong, M. (2023). Developing profession ready teacher education graduates through school-university partnerships: an Australian study. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2023.2227842
• Lipka, J. Adams, B. Wong, M. Koester, D. and Francois, K. (2019). Symmetry and Measuring: Ways to Teach the Foundations of Mathematics Inspired by Yupiaq Elders. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 9(1), 107-157. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.201901.07.
• Wirianski, A., Deall, S., Whittle, T., Wong, M., & Murray, G. (2014) Isotonic resistance jaw exercise alters jaw muscle coordination during jaw movements. Journal of Oral Rehabilitation. 41, 353–366. doi: 10.1111/joor.12153
• Wong, M. (2013). Locating fractions on a number line. Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 18(4), 22-26.
• Wong, M. (2013). Identifying fractions on a number line. Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 18(3), 13-18.
• Lipka, J., Wong, M. & Andrew-Ihrke. (2013). Alaskan Native Indigenous knowledge: Opportunities for learning. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 25(1), 129-150.

Projects

• 2024 Step up into Teaching $75,000 ACU HEPPP Funding (Lead)
• 2023 Fostering and building positive work-place coping strategies: Bringing professionals’ experiences to teaching and nursing students $13,000. ACU Teaching Development Grant (Team member)
• 2019 Visioning my Learning $10,895 ACU Teaching Development Grant (Lead)
• 2014-2016 Mathematics Achieving and Sustaining Success $62,529 ACU HEPPP Funding

Accolades and Awards

• 2018 Ralph Rawlinson Award for the education of students with disadvantage, Australian College of Educators, Inner Sydney Region
• 2017 Vice Chancellor's Staff Excellence Award for Recognition of the service innovations made in initial teacher education in New South Wales (team award)
• ACU 2016 Staff Award for Outstanding Community Engagement

Appointments and Affiliations

• 2022 – current Head of Education NSW
• 2022 – current Elected member of Academic Board
• 2019 – 2023 National Co-ordinator Accreditation
• 2017 – 2022 Deputy Head of Education NSW