During the past five years, the University of Newcastle ran four randomised controlled trials involving 1,400 teachers and 14,500 students from 430 schools in NSW, Queensland and Victoria. This program of research included the largest randomised controlled trial to date in Australian education research history.
In this free webinar, Laureate Professor Jenny Gore AM will unpack key findings of this ground-breaking research, share lessons learned for teachers and school and system leaders, and consider wider implications for education in Australia.
The five-year Building Capacity for Quality Teaching in Australian schools project sought to comprehensively test what the ‘Quality Teaching Rounds’ approach to teacher professional development could do for schooling in Australia through three interrelated activities:
As you will hear, the results of this project are compelling.
At a time when education is front and centre in the minds of the public, due to the teacher shortage, poor student and parent behaviour, stagnating/declining results, and the widening gap in achievement between advantaged and disadvantaged students, the adoption of QTR can support urgent government reform objectives to:
QTR is uniquely positioned to tackle the challenge of promoting both equity and excellence in Australian education.
