Teaching Learning and Leadership
Teacher education
Teacher education has become an area of considerable interest among policy makers in many countries over recent years. This reflects a growing body of research on the central importance of teacher knowledge and skill to quality learning opportunities for students. It also reflects the need to recruit and prepare a new generation of teachers as large numbers of current teachers reach retirement age.
Research on teacher education in the Teaching and Leadership Program has steadily grown over the past five years to the point where ACER is arguably the major centre for large-scale research in this area in Australia.
Current projects relating to teacher education include:
- Teacher Education Development Study
- Review of teacher education for languages teachers
- Analysis in Science, Maths and Technology Teaching and Learning
Recently completed projects in this area include:
- Options for benchmarking pre-service teacher education courses
- Quality of Pre-Service Teacher Education Survey
- Supporting Provisionally Registered Teachers: Evaluation of implementation in 2005
- National Accreditation Review
- Future Teachers Project Phase 1
- Evaluation of the Bachelor of Learning Management at Central Queensland University
Recent reports, articles, and conference presentations relating to teacher education:
Ingvarson,L. Beavis, A. & Kleinhenz, E. (2008). Factors affecting the impact of teacher education programs on teacher preparedness: implications for accreditation policy. European Journal of Teacher Education.
Ingvarson, L. C., Kleinhenz, E., Khoo, S. T. & Wilkinson, J. (2007). The VIT Program for Supporting Provisionally Registered Teachers: Evaluation of Implementation in 2005. Melbourne: Victorian
Institute of Teaching.
Ingvarson, L., Elliott, A., Kleinhenz, E. & McKenzie (2006). Teacher Education Accreditation: A review of national and international trends and practices. Canberra,Teaching Australia.
Ingvarson, L., Beavis, A., Danielson, C., Ellis, L. & Elliott, A. (2005). An Evaluation of the Bachelor of Learning Management at Central Queensland University. Canberra, Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Technology.
Ingvarson, L. (2006). An Evaluation of the BLM course at CQU. In R. Smith & D. Lynch (Eds.), The Rise of the Learning Manager: the BLM experience. Sydney:Pearson.
Ingvarson, L., Beavis, A., Kleinhenz, E. & Elliott, A. (2004). Pre-service teacher education in Australia: a mapping study of selection processes, course structure and content, and accreditation processes. Melbourne: MCEETYA Taskforce on Teacher Quality and Educational Leadership
Ingvarson, L., Beavis, A & Kleinhenz, E. (August 2004). Teacher education courses in Victoria: perceptions of their effectiveness and factors affecting their impact. Melbourne: Victorian Institute of Teaching.
Ingvarson, L., Beavis, A. & Kleinhenz,
E. (2005). Factors
affecting the impact of teacher education courses on teacher
preparedness. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal,
April 2005 (Submitted to Educational Evaluation and Policy
Analysis, June 2005).