Everyone should have in their lives at least one teacher who finds the spark that starts the bonfire. ‘What we have decided to do at Deakin University, with the Victorian Council of Deans of Education, the Victorian Department of Education and the Victorian Institute of Teaching, is to undertake a large scale research project to examine the ‘value-addedness’ of teacher education. ‘We want to first define what the value added nature of professional, properly trained teachers might be, then we want to work out ways to measure it.’ Deakin University, June 2009

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