Teacher retention
Report
Next steps: report of the Quality Initial Teacher Education Review
This is the final report of the Quality Initial Teacher Education Review, which examined the issues surrounding attracting and selecting high-quality candidates into the teaching profession, and how to prepare initial teacher education (ITE) students to be effective teachers.
Report
Making time for great teaching: how better government policy can help
Great teaching transforms students’ lives. But preparing for great teaching takes time. This report recommends that governments adopt three directions for reform.
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...
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...