This week we’re serving up the latest education scandal: the scandal du jour!
Before we get into that though, we start off by talking about the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, specifically referencing the review of the standards. And if you’re an early-bird listener, you can respond to Caiti’s call to action below and get in on the review yourself! Along the way, we unpack the purpose of the standards and whether they really align with that, or even support best practice in the classroom.
Next, we dive into Daisy Christodoulou’s latest piece on transferable skills. This is a refreshing take on a popular topic in education discourse, acknowledging why transferable skills are so desirable, and why the research doesn’t support teaching them.
Finally, we tackle the scandal du jour: the allegations surrounding Jason Arday. Rather than focusing on the individual, we explore the bigger question of institutional responsibility. What happens when universities, publishers and the wider academic ecosystem all have opportunities to ask difficult questions but don’t?
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Greg Ashman
Greg is a school leader at Ballarat Clarendon College and holds a PhD in instructional design from UNSW.
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Caiti Wade
Caiti is a leader of pedagogy at a boys’ secondary school in Brisbane, education consultant and is doing her doctorate in cognitive science.
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Episode resources
* Review of the Teacher Standards - Closes August 7th - Caiti’s Call to Action for our listeners
* What should an Australian teacher look like now? This is your chance to help decide - AARE
* Australian Professional Teacher Standards | AITSL
* The Problem with Transferable Skills | Daisy Christodoulou | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
* Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor | University of Cambridge | The Guardian
* Leave Jason Arday alone - this is a scandal of academic educational leadership | Stephen Vainker
Acknowledgement of country
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