Professor Anna Elizabeth Du Plessis
Professor and Director of the Office for Professional Learning - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education
Biography
Anna Elizabeth Du Plessis is an experienced practitioner whose various research projects have examined educational leadership, professional development for teachers and school leaders’ and teachers’ lived experiences in relation to out-of-field teaching practices. Her research interests include teachers’ wellbeing and dispositions, classroom management, behaviour management, school leadership, healthy school communities, national education policies as well as school improvement policies. She has been involved in AITSL, ARC and DETE research projects in addition to her own research projects. These projects investigated the implementation of the Australian professional standards for teachers, early career teachers teaching science and mathematics outside their field of qualifications and standard-based assessment in specific senior secondary school subject areas. Her research projects led to several publications in top tier journals and presentations at international conferences.
Anna is Director of the Office for Professional Learning at the University of New England. Prior to her career as a researcher Anna was a teacher for more that 20 years of which 8 years were in school leadership positions. Her teaching experience stretched over three countries and across primary and secondary schools.
