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Second year teachers: Now I know what I don’t know
The National Teacher Workforce Action Plan offers ways to deal with current teacher shortages across Australia, with a conspicuous focus on rapidly attracting more teachers to the profession and ensuring that they receive support and mentoring as they transition into their first year of teaching. However, when we interviewed a small group of early career …
Why being a mentor is hard. Here’s how to help
In my PhD research, I set out to understand how mentoring works within Initial Teacher Education (ITE) for …
What we must do now to rescue Australian schools
We expect education to be a catalyst for more equitable and inclusive societies yet too often governments and systems deploy one-stop solutions without detailed plans for how exactly improvements will be achieved or at what costs. The Building Education Systems for Equity and Inclusion report comes from an Academy of Social Sciences of Australia workshop …
Online communities for teachers: what research says about their limits and potential
The ability to be connected “anywhere, anytime” is recent enough that most professions are still figuring out how …