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Week 23: Building professional capacity
The ACER Institute is committed to ensuring the learning profession is highly skilled, knowledgeable and engaged in excellent practice.
Building the professional capabilities of educators and school leaders depends on access to high-quality professional learning opportunities, and that’s the very raison d'être of the ACER Institute.
‘We provide research-based professional learning that’s relevant to educators across a range of contexts to improve learning,’ explains Lynda Rosman, the ACER Institute’s Manager of Programs and Projects. ‘So we’re usually running two or three programs simultaneously, a bit like juggling.
‘Keeping the balls in the air,’ she says, ‘is a class act by an expert team of fantastic people in the ACER Institute.’
The ACER Institute runs more than 100 scheduled professional learning workshops a year, plus the Leading Thinkers’ Seminar Series, five graduate programs, with a sixth in development, a Professional Learning Association – and the annual Research Conference of ACER. Underpinning every offering is a relentless focus on the use of data to support evidence-based policies and practices.
The ACER Institute also incorporates the ACER International Institute, which customises programs for international groups lasting anywhere between three days and three months. Recent clients include the Norwegian Centre for Mathematics Education and the Hong Kong Education Bureau.
The ACER Institute also customises programs nationally with partners like Queensland’s Department of Education and Training, and Victoria’s Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership.
Is there a typical day? ‘I might be working on scheduling, managing logistics, liaising with client organisations, then offsite to deliver a program, but it’s always different,’ Lynda says. ‘The one constant is we’re always busy.’
The ACER Institute, she notes, is a crucial meeting point between ACER and educators. ‘We identify the needs of educators, and our expertise and resources within ACER to meet those needs. We’re constantly drawing on ACER’s capabilities in terms of research, but also the services of the Cunningham Library, for example, or the ACER Bookshop, to build capacity and improve learning.’
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Week 50: International research into teaching and learning
GOAL 1
Learners and their needs
every learner engaged in challenging learning opportunities appropriate to their readiness and needs
GOAL 2
The Learning Profession
every learning professional highly skilled, knowledgeable and engaged in excellent practice
GOAL 3
Places of learning
every learning community well resourced and passionately committed to improving outcomes for all learners
GOAL 4
A Learning Society
a society in which every learner experiences success and has an opportunity to achieve their potential
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