Supporting professional and personal development over a teacher’s life
Teacher education plays a central role in maximising the opportunities for diverse people to learn and to thrive. Our team of experts are committed to progressive, high-quality teacher education that supports ongoing professional and personal development over the course of teachers’ lives. Our research is committed to the equitable distribution of learning opportunities and outcomes and understands that teacher education and support plays a crucial role in student wellbeing and learning opportunities.
Major areas
- Quality and effectiveness of ITE: improving the debate
- Knowing the ITE workforce: who teaches the teachers?
- Understanding the ITE context: diverse learners, diverse communities
- Policies, partnerships, frameworks impacting on ITE
Project Highlight
Teacher professional development videos
The videos are based on a literature review by Associate Professor Sarah Prestridge that produced a model called the S2S Online Engagement Model. It consists of a core model and four different underlying principles for practice. The core model focuses on engineering collaborative inquiry to support student self-regulation with understanding of three different types of engagement: cognitive, emotional and behavioural engagement. The three types of engagement are like bouncing balls, shifting in and out of focus but always represented. The core model helps to understand what online student-to-student engagement represents.