Attracting, preparing, and sustaining quality teachers in early education

该项目旨在解决澳大利亚幼儿教师长期短缺的问题，这影响了早期教育的质量和投资回报。该项目希望通过一个创新的、生态的、纵向的设计来产生对这支专业教师队伍的新认识，该设计将跟踪幼儿教师的职业轨迹，并开发一个世界上第一个评估幼儿教师质量的工具。调查结果预计将为政策提供信息，包括澳大利亚政府批准的10年国家劳动力战略和澳大利亚政府的早期战略，以支持未来持续供应高质量的幼儿教师队伍，并改善幼儿的成果。

This project aims to address the chronic shortage of early childhood teachers in Australia, which is compromising quality and return on investment in early education. The project expects to generate new understandings about this specialist teacher workforce through an innovative, ecological, longitudinal design that will track early childhood teachers’ career trajectories and develop a world-first tool to assess early childhood teacher quality. Findings are expected to inform policy— including the Australian Government-endorsed 10-year national Workforce Strategy and the Australian Government's Early Years Strategy— to support the future sustained supply of a quality early childhood teacher workforce and improve outcomes for young children.