The Teaching Improvement Agenda

David Lynch, Professor of Education and Research Leader of TeachLab, Southern Cross University, Australia. Richard Smith, Adjunct Professor, Southern Cross University and Emeritus Professor, Central Queensland University, Australia. David Turner, Deputy Research Leader, TeachLab, Southern Cross University, Australia. Barnett Berry, Senior Research Fellow, Learning Policy Institute, South Carolina, United States. Jake Madden, Group Head of Schools, Aoba Schools Group, Japan. David Spendlove, Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Manchester University, UK. Megan Lee, Senior Teaching Fellow, Bond University, Australia.

Part 1: The case for change 1. The teaching transformation agenda: An introduction 2. A new world challenging schools and teachers 3. Education systems in crisis 4. What does it mean to be “educated? Part 2: Prefiguring changes to teaching, schooling and teacher education 5. A rethink of the school curriculum 6. Exploring the concept of teaching transformation 7. A new school teaching logic Part 3: Designing a new paradigm for teaching and schooling 8. New concepts for a transformation of school teaching 9. Prefiguring a new grammar of schooling 10. An expanded focus for schools 11. Preparing a new teacher construct for a new grammar of schooling 12. A transformational teacher education program Part 4: Conclusions 13. What’s been done before and what can we learn from it? 14. The teaching transformation agenda