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Investigating the Effectiveness of Teacher Education for Early Career Teachers in Diverse Settings: The Longitudinal Research We Have to Have
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Rowan, Leonie; Mayer, Diane; Kline, Jodie; Kostogriz, Alex; Walker-Gibbs, Bernadette – Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
There have been more than 100 reports focusing on the effectiveness of teacher education in Australia over the last 35 years with many positioning teacher education as flawed and in need of reform. These frequent criticisms have drawn attention to the difficulty teacher educators can experience when trying to interrupt or contest this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational Research, Program Effectiveness
Early Career Teachers' Perceptions of Their Preparedness To Teach "Diverse Learners": Insights from an Australian Research Project
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Rowan, Leonie; Kline, Jodie; Mayer, Diane – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
In 2012, early career teachers in Queensland and Victoria (Australia) were invited to complete the Studying the Effectiveness of Teacher Education graduate survey. The survey included a "Preparation for Teaching Scale" that provided opportunities to selfreport on how well their teacher education program prepared them for 46 areas of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Readiness
Authentically Assessing Graduate Teaching: Outside and beyond Neo-Liberal Constructs
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Allard, Andrea C.; Mayer, Diane; Moss, Julianne – Australian Educational Researcher, 2014
In this paper, we challenge the current focus on "best practice", graduate teacher tests, and student test scores as the panacea for ensuring teaching quality and argue for ways of thinking about evidence of quality beginning teaching outside and beyond the current neoliberal accountability discourses circulating in Australia and other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Neoliberalism, Teacher Effectiveness
Forty Years of Teacher Education in Australia: 1974-2014
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Mayer, Diane – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2014
In this paper, I analyse the history of teacher education in Australia from 1974 to the current policy moment in which questions are increasingly being asked about the quality of teaching and teacher education. Teacher education is, and has been, a highly scrutinised domain in Australia. Since the 1970s, we have seen more than 100 reviews of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational History, Educational Quality