Could digital teaching passports solve schools' out-of-field woes?

Margaret Ryan

By Margaret Ryan
Published June 24, 2021

How can classroom teaching experience and other relevant achievements count towards educators’ qualifications? Is there a way to recognise robust and officially recognised expertise in new areas to help schools deal with the ‘out-of-field teaching’ phenomenon'?

Perhaps it’s time for our schools to adopt a digital teacher/teaching passport.

Yet Australia’s education system seems fixated on ...

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