Panel Event & Book Launch: Teacher Education as Vital Nation Building

The Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) hosted a special online panel event on teaching as a career of choice on Wednesday 14 September 2022. Facilitated by Madonna King, the event delivered on its promises to be fast-paced and forward looking, bringing together ideas with potential to form new social contracts for teacher education, young people and communities. A new book titled, ‘Professionalizing Teacher Education: Performance Assessment, Standards, Moderation and Evidence’ was also launched at the event by Professor Mary Ryan, Executive Dean of Education and Arts ACU.

Hot topics covered by the panel:

• Internships as part of preparation
• Efforts to diversify the workforce
• Efficiency of preparation models: The optimum duration and the modes of delivery of programs
• Pathways through preparation
• How the academic program to the practice-based program in schools can be more effectively linked, one to the other, and to worlds of work
• Improving teaching conditions including salary and study leave

Panel line-up:

• Mark Grant – Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership
• Jane Ceolin – Director, First Peoples Directorate, ACU
• Malcolm Elliott – President, Australian Primary Principals Association
• Sally Egan – Deputy Executive Director, National Catholic Education Commission
• Andrew Pierpoint – President, Australian Secondary Principals’ Association
• Brian Lee-Archer – Chief Executive of Strategy and Consulting, Surround Australia Pty Ltd
• Professor Bob Lingard – Professorial Fellow, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, ACU
• Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith – Director, Institute for Learning Sciences & Teacher Education, ACU
• Madonna King – Panel Facilitator

To access the book:

• Visit: https://www.routledge.com/Professionalizing-Teacher-Education-Performance-Assessment-Standards/Wyatt-Smith-Adie-Haynes-Day/p/book/9780367332129