Robust evidence of the effectiveness of professional development for teachers is limited.
This study tested a pedagogy-based, collaborative PD approach for impact on the quality of …

This report was prepared by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to
support the work of the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group (TEMAG). ACER was …

AER 61 discusses the contemporary influences on initial teacher education, with particular
attention to the notion of quality teaching, and the role of teacher education and teacher …

Within global education policy, the role of multilateral agencies in pushing crossnational
policy borrowing is increasingly being complemented by efforts from private international …

The story of Teach For All begins with the story of Teach For America. In 1989, recent
Princeton graduate Wendy Kopp issued a call to high-achieving graduating seniors across …

A variety of public critiques, reports and government reviews into Initial Teacher Education
(ITE) in Australia and globally have called for a rethink on teacher education. Similarly, key …

In this article, we describe how teachers in the Australian school system are educated to
teach science and the different qualifications that teachers need to enter the profession. The …

Drawing upon a long-term study of venture philanthropy and public schools in Australia, this
paper focuses on Teach For Australia (TFA) as a major component of a venture …

Teach for Australia was announced by the Australian Government in 2008, at a corporate
dinner sponsored by Swiss multinational investment bank UBS, hosting New York Schools …

Over the past two decades, teacher education has been increasingly conceptualized as a
policy problem in response to what school reformers, policy-makers, and philanthropists …