Professional learning

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has created a resource confirming how effective reading and comprehension skills develop – also dispelling common myths and providing clarity for teachers. 

Ukrainian primary school teachers using learning-through-play methods have observed greater growth in their students’ literacy and social-emotional skills compared to other teachers’ students.

An Australian research database that promotes critical thinking and counters misinformation is now available to secondary school students, schools and public libraries.

New research is helping funding recipients of the Global Partnership for Education’s Education Out Loud programme to be more effective in shaping policy for their communities. 

Dr Helen Timperley recently discussed some of the key ideas in her new book, Leading professional conversations: Adaptive expertise for schools.

Professional development can help teachers better support students in developing literacy skills. In this article, we share a model of assessment-informed professional development used in one of our IBT schools in India.