Glen Bennett, Councillor:

Glen is currently lecturing part-time in Education at ECU and doing consultancy work more broadly in the field of school education. He has a deep interest in and commitment to history in schools.  After teaching social studies and history in city and country high schools for 20 years, Glen worked more recently in the curriculum policy area in the Department of Education and Training. He led developments in social studies and history education in the Department as Learning Area Superintendent and in a range of other positions until 2006. His work involved him in key developments in Year 11 and 12 History over many years, including the recent History Course of Study, and he managed early work on the emerging Years K – 10 syllabuses. He has been a member of the HTAWA for 25 years.

Glen has served on the Committee of the History Council of Western Australia since 2005.