A Blueprint for initial teacher education and teacher workforce data

In 2015, the Australian Government Department of Education and Training (the Department) in conjunction with the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) contracted the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy (The Mitchell Institute) and the Centre for International Research on Education Systems (CIRES) to develop a Blueprint for ITE and teacher workforce data. The purpose of the project was to identify the types of data that could be collected to assist planning, research and evaluation for ITE and for the teacher workforce. The project had three components: develop a Data Framework for ITE and teacher workforce data to inform policy development and workforce planning; map data in the Framework to currently or previously available collections to identify data gaps; and develop a Blueprint for implementing the Data framework in Australia. This project builds on previous work undertaken to collect teaching workforce data, including the National Teaching Workforce Dataset (2012), Staff in Australia’s Schools survey collections (2007, 2010, 2013), the Longitudinal Teacher Education and Workforce Study (2013), the Productivity Commission’s Schools Workforce report (2012) and AITSL's Annual ITE data report (AITSL 2014).