Career and IT Educator Interviews

In the interviews below Career Educators and IT Teachers discuss factors that encourage or dissuade female students from choosing ICT subjects in secondary school and seeking careers or university courses in the IT sector

Bernadette Gigliotti CEO Australian Centre for Career Education (ACCE)

Bernadette has many years as a Career Practitioner in a range of school settings.

She is currently the CEO of the ACCE, a not for profit charitable organisation tasked with providing support and training to teachers as well as services to schools and the community on career counselling.

Mitch Jones IT and Business Management Teacher

Mitch is a highly experienced IT teacher from Buckley Park College. She is currently teaching IT at the secondary level including VCE.

In this video Mitch discusses ways in which she encourages her students to consider choosing IT as a subject at Senior Secondary and in particular approaches that have worked for the girls in her classes.