Learning to Teach in a New Era

Jeanne Allen is Associate Professor and Higher Degree Research Coordinator in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University. Her research expertise is in teacher education, standardised educational contexts, teacher identity, and student engagement and retention. Jeanne was an invited contributor to the prestigious Sage Handbook of Research on Teacher Education and she was named national leading researcher in the field of Teaching and Teacher Education by Australia's League of Scholars in 20188. Her most recent books are Young Adolescent Engagement in Learning: Supporting Students through Structure and Community (2019) and Teachers as Professional Learners: Contextualising Identity across Policy and Practice (2021). She is also immediate past co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. Simone White is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at the Queensland University of Technology. She previously held the Chair of Teacher Education at Monash University and led the Academic Community for the Teacher Education, Arts, Language and Professional Learning Group. She is a Past President of the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA). Simone recently led an OLT-funded project titled 'Engaging and partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and community to improve student outcomes'. Simone sits on the Editorial Board of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Teaching in the twenty-first century Jeanne Allen and Simone White; Part II. Professional Knowledge: 2. Understanding the education landscape: policy, practice and context Simone White; 3. Effective pedagogy for student learning Anne Coffey; 4. Teaching with digital technologies Amber McLeod, Kelly Carabott and Catherine Lang; Part III. Professional Practice: 5. Aligning curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and reporting Madonna Stinson and Suzanne Henden; 6. Planning for teaching Linley Cornish, Michelle Bannister-Tyrrell, Jennifer Charteris, Kathy Jenkins and Marguerite Jones; 7. Student diversity, education and social justice Leonie Rowan; 8. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education Alison Quin and Francis Bobongie-Harris; 9. Understanding classroom management Jeanne Allen and Michelle Ronksley-Pavia; 10. Promoting positive teaching and learning environments Andrea Reupert and Stuart Woodcock; Part IV. Professional Engagement: 11. Communication skills with students, staff and parents/caregivers Wendy Goff; 12. Becoming a teaching professional: scoping the ethical and legal dimensions Elaine Sharplin and Deborah Wake.