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SAGE Publications, Australian Journal of Education, 2(65), p. 139-152, 2021

DOI: 10.1177/00049441211003429

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Understanding the characteristics of professional development programs for teachers’ health and wellbeing: Implications for research and practice

Journal article published in 2021 by Lucy Corbett ORCID, Philayrath Phongsavan, Louisa R. Peralta, Adrian Bauman
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Professional development (PD) provides an opportunity to promote the psychological, social, and physical health tools teachers require to maintain teacher wellbeing. Despite their potential, little is known about PD programs targeting the health and wellbeing of Australian teachers. This study aimed to summarize the characteristics of Australian PD programs targeted at teacher wellbeing, identify gaps in existing PD and make recommendations for future research and practice. Three search strategies, (1) search engine results, (2) a manual search of known Australian education websites, and (3) requests for information from Australian education organizations, were combined to ensure a comprehensive inventory of PD programs was compiled. This study found 63 PD programs promoting health and wellbeing that currently exist for Australian teachers. Of these, only three provided evidence of their evaluation indicating programs are advertised and implemented without evidence of their effectiveness. Future PD should be evaluated with findings of the evaluations reported publicly so evidence-based programs promoting teacher’s health and wellbeing can be recommended and implemented.