A new review adopts a now all-too-familiar approach of increasing layers of regulation and telling teacher educators how to do their jobs.
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An expert panel has just released a discussion paper on reform in initial teacher education, ahead of a final report in June 2023.
Analysing two major studies, researchers found it did not matter if teachers had less than one year of experience or had spent 25 years in the classroom – they delivered the same quality of teaching.
Education Minister Jason Clare says completion rates for teaching degrees are 50% compared to 70% for other degrees. This sounds alarming but there is a different way to look at the figures.
Two teacher educators look at how we can keep students in teaching degrees. Reimbursing them for professional placements in schools would be a start.
New research finds students are having panic attacks and losing money on a test they must pass to qualify as teachers.
Education experts say putting student teachers in classrooms risks seeing teacher attrition levels like we have never seen before.
Privileging the randomised controlled trial in education suggests a preoccupation with scientific measurement over research that privileges participants’ voices, especially in a feminised profession.
Universities are responsible for the majority of teacher training and eduation in England. The government is set on shifting the focus to schools
The review into teacher education announced by the Federal Education Minister in recent months was met with criticism from many. But it is actually a necessary part of reforming the education system.
Improving initial teacher education is a long-term strategy. It won’t achieve the education minister’s goal of getting Australia to the top-performing nations in maths and literacy by 2030.
During 2020, we saw the traditional classroom all but disappear. We can expect education to face other types of disruption. In an uncertain future, teachers need more than classroom-readiness.
Whoever the federal education minister after the May 18 election, he or she needs to put school funding, evidence for what works and initial teacher training front and centre.
Changes to the literacy and numeracy standards for new teachers in Victoria have raised questions about what makes a ‘good’ teacher.
Australia’s decline in PISA rankings and criticisms of NAPLAN tell us we should also be looking at how we assess teacher quality.
Accusations of Australian universities churning out poor teaching graduates are false and the evidence says otherwise.
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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