Teachers
Research Summary
The impact of COVID-19 on perceptions of Australian schooling
Schooling in Australia has changed significantly in the past year. Lockdowns around the country saw schools shifting to online and remote learning - sometimes with only a few hours’ notice. This report outlines findings from a recent survey of teachers.
Report
Report of Valuing the Teaching Profession - an independent inquiry
In early 2020, the NSW Teachers Federation resolved to commission an independent inquiry into the state of the teaching profession in the public schools of NSW and the significant changes that have affected the profession since 2004. This report outlines the inquiry's findings.
Report
How to raise the status of teachers using digitally mediated social innovation
Teachers are critical to achieving sustainable economic prosperity through their role in disseminating knowledge and moulding future generations of critical and creative thinkers. Yet in Australia, teaching as a career path is waning in both its attractiveness and status. The overarching research question explored in this project is "how can open innovation improve the status...
Report
Teaching writing in secondary English in the NAPLAN era
This report presents findings from research investigating the writing pedagogies, beliefs and practices of English teachers in the context of a decade of Australia's NAPLAN testing, where writing has been consistently identified as problematic in secondary schools.
Briefing paper
Give teachers a say: facing the challenge of teachers’ work-related stress in the COVID-19 crisis
Throughout the world, teachers and schools are responding to one of the greatest disruptions to education systems in living memory. This brief uses data collected before the COVID-19 crisis to answer two questions: How are teachers' stress and job satisfaction related to their willingness to stay in their job in the long run? What can...