Effective professional learning is acknowledged as a key lever to improve teacher practice.
However, many studies report significant variation in the effectiveness of the types of …

Reflective practice plays a significant role in effective teaching. However, for pre-service
teachers (PSTs), it can be a difficult process to not only think reflectively but to understand its …

Multimodality is an important element of teaching and learning in early years settings. It
provides opportunities for young children to communicate using different resources they feel …

Despite policies and guidelines introducing teacher performance and development systems
at a local, national and international level, current findings would suggest there is limited …

This study examines changes in the performance and development policy in Victoria, which
repositioned the rights and duties of teachers and school leaders. The article explains how …

This study seeks to explore the intelligibility of physics teaching and the dynamics of the
processes of personal professional identity formation processes. The teachers' reflections in …

Teachers have historically been faced with extrinsic factors, such as federal, state, and local
mandates, that leave them feeling disempowered (Slattery, 2006; Spring 2018). In response …

This study builds on our previous work where specific science activities, such as
demonstrations and laboratory activities, evoked students' positive emotional responses and …

Teachers have a significant impact on student learning (Hattie, 2012). Schools and
education systems strive to improve student learning through substantial investment in …

Australian performance and development processes have been viewed by teachers as
having little impact on their teaching and were mainly fulfilled out of compliance, according …