Are teacher educators really doing a bad job?

Abstract

The announcement of another review into Initial Teacher Education ( ITE) has sparked a flurry of responses from a range of players, even as many of the profound reforms from the previous Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group (TEMAG) in 2014 still being bedded down. While there is evidence to suggest otherwise, a premise that underpins the new review is that initial teacher education programs in Australia are ineffective, and by association, those of us who work in initial teacher education need to lift our game.