Aspiring teachers will need to meet a raft of new requirements if they want to get a job …
Australian teachers are doing well. They are not under-qualified and they are certainly not under-educated, as some media stories would have you believe. They are doing an admirable job managing exhausting workloads and constantly changing government policies and processes. They are more able than past generations to identify and help students with wide ranging needs. …
We are deeply concerned about advice the Australian Government has been given on teacher education. We believe it is seriously flawed. The advice has led, and is leading, to major reforms to teacher education throughout Australia. Teacher educators and educational researchers like ourselves would like the public to know what is happening. Significantly we want …
Once upon a time early childhood teachers used to learn singing and playing the piano, primary school teachers could study electives (and even majors) in areas such as drama and art, and universities could add new courses (such as ones in teacher as entrepreneur or global citizenship) through putting in a course variation form to …
The digital literacy of pre-service teachers was put in the spotlight recently. A report on the review of …
My student teachers often question the value of educational theory in their initial teacher education. Also often early …
The quality of teachers is a growing focus of educational reform around the world, with new policies attempting …
There is a strong critique of the impacts of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers from educational researchers. …
Teacher training institutions across Australia are constantly striving to improve the way they educate our future teachers. As …
Positive personal attributes such as fairness, humour and kindness, I believe, should be considered necessary attributes for a teacher. Currently much of the discussion around ‘quality’ teaching, teacher entry and teacher education is about a suite of high-level competencies and standards. However the nature of teachers’ work and the uniqueness of the education profession should …