Professional development
Alternative labels
Professional learning
Discussion paper
Every educator matters: evidence for a new early childhood workforce strategy for Australia
The early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce is essential to Australia’s economic and social prosperity. This paper draws on contemporary Australian research, to set out policy proposals for Australian governments to consider in developing and implementing the new national ECEC workforce strategy.
Report
Getting the point: review of continuing professional development for Victorian lawyers
This review makes 28 recommendations to improve the Continuing Professional Development regime for lawyers in Victoria.
Report
Learning in a pandemic
Sixteen million people across Europe were unemployed in September 2020, a rise of about two million since the beginning of the pandemic. FutureFit is a major training and research project up-skilling over 1,000 workers at risk of job displacement. This report presents the findings from the programmes in Sweden, Denmark and Finland, where the training...
Report
Beyond therapy: the multiple benefits of using a service-learning model to enhance paediatric therapy in a remote area school
Flinders University researchers led a collaborative initiative between health and education staff that provided two four-week blocks of intense physiotherapy services at an additional needs school in Alice Springs. This report has been released to inform future service-learning placements in the same and comparable contexts.
Evaluation
Teachers supporting children with an incarcerated parent: a pilot of the impact and applicability of SHINE for Kids' teacher training program - final report
SHINE for Kids have developed and implemented Australia’s first teacher training program to develop the skills, attitudes, knowledge and confidence of teachers to support the education of students with an incarcerated parent. This pilot study represents the first independent evaluation of SHINE for Kids’ teacher training program on these teacher outcomes.