Joce Nuttall, Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University
Teachers and learners, teachers as learners: What do we know about effective professional development in early childhood education?
Joce Nuttall is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University. Joce has almost thirty years experience as a teacher, teacher educator, and research academic. Her PhD was an ethnography of a New Zealand childcare centre, focusing on everyday processes of curriculum construction amongst the staff.
Keynote presentation
Workshop presentation
Keynote abstract
Effective teaching and learning in early childhood settings depend not only on the quality of interactions between adults and children. We also know there is a relationship between high-quality interactions and the commitment of teachers to their own continuing professional development. But what do we really know about effective professional development in early childhood settings?
In this keynote presentation, Joce used examples drawn from research and professional development carried out in Australia and New Zealand to highlight the complexity of teacher learning in early childhood centres, and shared some of the ways researchers are beginning to understand how teachers learn to be more effective practitioners.
