Dr Cate Challen
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
I am an educator committed to increasing access and equity in education by centring students and engaging teachers as powerful agents of change. I leverage my ten years of experience in the biotechnology sector and seven years as a classroom teacher to coach teachers and leaders on how to analyse and use data regularly to inform instructional practices and school-wide decision-making. I support new mathematics teachers to interrogate the status quo based on data, give students a voice and teach for social justice.Selected Publications
Challen, C. & Sharrock, D. Online Lesson Study: Solving authentic problems of practice. In Huang, R., Helgevold, N., Lang, J , & Jiang, H. (2023). Teacher professional learning through lesson study in virtual/hybrid environments: opportunities, challenges, and future directions. New York: Routledge. (in preparation)
Sharrock, D. & Challen, C., (2022) Lesson Study Improving Student-Centered Instruction. In Pina Neves, R. & Fiorentini, D. (Ed.) Seminario Internacional de Lesson Study no Ensino de Matematica (SILEM) (p141-148). Vitoria: Edifes Parceria.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer in Education (Mathematics and Technologies)
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
mathematics, student-centred, content knowledge, active learning, pedagogy, lesson study, continuous improvement
Research field
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Biotechnology (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Member, Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Member, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance
Member, Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers
Teaching
QUT - senior lecturer, maths education
High Tech High Graduate School of Education - course designer, Teacher Residency and Teacher credential programs
High Tech High - high school maths, biology and physics teacher
Publications
- Sharrock, D. & Challen, C. (2024). Online Lesson Study: Solving authentic problems of practice. In R. Huang, N. Helgevold, J. Lang & H. Jiang (Eds.), Teacher Professional Learning through Lesson Study in Virtual and Hybrid Environments: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions (pp. 104–124). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/245292
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Cate, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- Invited as a keynote speaker to the conference to discuss research on Networked Improvement Communities for teacher professional learning
Supervision
Looking for a postgraduate research supervisor?
I am currently accepting research students for Honours, Masters and PhD study.
You can browse existing student topics offered by QUT or propose your own topic.
Current supervisions
- The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Philippine Initial Teacher Educators in Remote Teaching Environments
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Jennifer Clifton - Development of Lesson Study Integration Model for Mathematics Pre-Service Teacher Education Curriculum
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Vinesh Chandra