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. (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/hybrid environments: opportunities, challenges, and future directions (pp.104-124). Routledge.
Sharrock, D. & Challen, C. (2023) Lesson study can build teachers’ confidence in their practice, The Learning Professional, 44(5): 50-54.
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), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Biotechnology (University of Queensland)
- Master of Biotechnology (University of Queensland)
- Bachelor of Science (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Member, Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Member, MERGA Special Working Group - Effective Pedagogies
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 Graduate School of Education - improvement coach
High Tech High - instructional coach - mathematics
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