In the article, New academy aims to fill the gap in university teacher training by Tim Dodd, published in The Australian on 4 June 2024, Dean of The Academy for the Science of Instruction, Dr Mark Carter discusses how it aims to fill a gap identified in the Teacher Education Expert Panel report, which told the federal government last year that too many new teachers felt, after completing teacher training, that they needed to be better equipped for the classroom.
Despite reports identifying a lack of course content around critical subject matter areas, such as how to teach children to read based on the science of reading, university education faculties have largely not addressed these omissions,” Dr Carter said.
He said that with only a few exceptions, there was limited evidence that university education faculties were prepared to make the significant changes that were implicit in the TEEP report’s recommendations, or had the expertise to deliver new core content to meet the needs.
“We established the academy to fill a necessary niche in educating teachers about evidence-based teaching practice applied in the classroom,” Dr Carter said.
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