AHISA SUBMISSION

Productivity Commission

Productivity Inquiry

24 October 2022

In its submission, AHISA focused on national initiatives to support and accelerate the professional development of teachers and school leaders. Recommendations included:

• Establish a national teacher-mentor training scheme to: support skills acquisition by pre-service teachers on practicum placements or training under internship arrangements; accelerate the acquisition and refinement of pedagogical and behaviour management expertise by early career teachers; and support the ongoing development of experienced teachers.
  
  
• To provide support for early career principals, the Australian Government could task AISTL with developing a program to train current or former principals as mentors/advisers for early career principals and initiate a trial of a national principal mentoring/advisory program through principals’ associations.
  
  
• To encourage the development of accredited post-graduate certificate and diploma courses for middle leadership roles – and to support the acquisition of graduate qualifications by school leaders at all levels – the Australian Government could increase the number of Commonwealth Assisted Places available for all graduate courses in education.
  
  
• To support all school leaders to maintain their professional reading, the Australian Government could reactivate a Leadership Clearinghouse, under the auspices of AITSL, AERO or an Australian university, as a repository of research on school leadership.

Productivity Inquiry – Full Submission