Events in PLATE
The Centre for Professional Learning and Teacher Education hosts a number of events during the year including Research Conversations, an opportunity for members to discuss new research in progress across the Faculty.
It also hosts the annual student research conference where students who have recently completed dissertations can discuss their work.
Recent seminars include a visit by Dr Tim Allender from the University of Sydney discussing his research project ‘Teaching Across the Disciplines’ focussing on what best practice teachers in History do as experts that is the same/different compared to best practice teachers in other school subjects (Physics/Music and Biology)and the theorisation associated with this. The project has involved 16 schools with over 80 interviews and about 500 observed lessons in Queensland, Australia