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Professional learning communities are a space for teachers to discuss their teaching methods and their immediate realities.
Bilingual education can improve learning outcomes but it’s important to consider local context.
Australia’s teachers are predominantly Australian-born, female, and non-Indigenous. Most hail from middle-class backgrounds with urban upbringings, and are less likely to have disabilities.
A new review adopts a now all-too-familiar approach of increasing layers of regulation and telling teacher educators how to do their jobs.
Research shows plenty of people think about becoming teachers. We also know mid-career teachers’ expectations don’t match reality once they make it to the classroom.
Simply setting aside time for collaboration doesn’t always lead to better outcomes for teachers or students. Effective collaboration requires skilful leadership and a common language.
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.
Two teacher educators look at how we can keep students in teaching degrees. Reimbursing them for professional placements in schools would be a start.
As a researcher focussed on African, Afro-Caribbean and Black families’ schooling experiences, I appeal to school staff to understand the importance of the school-family-community partnership.
Childhood wasn’t more ‘innocent’ or ‘natural’ before digital technologies or the pandemic.
The 2022 election campaign has not exactly been a policy fest. And one critical area we have heard very little about is schools.
Teachers who take alternative routes to being certified tend to leave their positions sooner than educators who go through colleges of education, new research shows.
Teaching graduates must have spent time training in schools for the day they take charge of their own classes. But the past two years have laid bare the system’s failings.
Some school districts now accept year-long consent forms in which guardians can consent for children to participate in neighbourhood walks at any time in the school year.
It is important for people who are part of educational institutions to honour the year-round significance of the new National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.
Considering our relationships to stories about the past and looking at learning as a process of encounter can help Canadians to become better treaty partners.
What Kenya should focus on is providing in-service professional development to improve student learning outcomes.
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.
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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Professor, Leadership and School Transformation, School of Education, University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle
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Dean of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University, Griffith University
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Director of Sheffield Institute of Education and Professor of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Education and Mathematics Education, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor & Head, School of Science & Mathematics, Mauritius Institute of Education
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Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University
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Senior lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning, Rhodes University
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Professor of Education, Penn State
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Chair, Psychology in Education Research Centre, University of York
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Professor of Education (Innovation in Schooling & Educational Technology), University of Newcastle
