Teacher education experts from unis Newcastle and Wollongong are developing PD programmes for NSW Government school assistant principals and head teachers

State education minister Sarah Mitchell calls it a national first.

UoW offers PD for teachers including on offer now; professional development for careers teachers and a programme for teaching gifted students from special populations.

Programmes from Uni Newcastle’s Quality Teaching Academy include “quality teaching rounds” which uses a “collaborative, teacher-driven framework that enables participants to analyse and improve their practice.”