Opinion
Time that teachers were taught properly too
The example of a few schools shows you can change the practice of thousands of teachers in dozens of schools with well curated, well implemented, evidence-based professional learning and coaching.
Elena DouglasEducation advocateTeachers are professionals. Like other professionals, they deserve leading-edge research to be a significant component of their degrees. Until now, this has been denied.
Imagine if doctors and nurses were denied the most up-to-date knowledge of medical research. This has been the fate of two generations of Australian teachers: they have been sent into classrooms without the knowledge on how humans learn, how to run their classrooms or how to lead learning.
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