Martina Tassone

Martina Tassone is a qualified Primary school teacher. She completed her doctorate in 2020, researching literacy assessment practices of early years teachers in Catholic Schools in the Melbourne archdiocese. Martina has presented her research findings at the Australian Literacy Educators Australia (ALEA) conferences and has been invited as a Keynote Speaker at the Primary English Teaching Association of Australia conferences. She has worked on key literacy projects with Catholic Education Melbourne and Brisbane Catholic Education. She continues to support Catholic Primary schools with facilitating change in literacy learning and teaching. She is a senior lecturer and currently lectures in language and literacy subjects at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Education and is also the Director of Initial Teacher Education. Martina’s research interests include literacy assessment, neoliberalism in education, the transition between early childhood and primary education and language and literacy learning and teaching in the early years of schooling.