Peter Cole
Peter has been consulting within the education sector both in Australia and internationally for over fifteen years. He is a former senior executive of the Victorian Department of Education and teacher.
Major clients in education have included most government education systems in Australia, a range of international agencies and governments and private sector providers of education.
Peter is an accredited and experienced school effectiveness reviewer and over the last decade has undertaken over 100 school improvement reviews in primary and secondary schools as well as providing advice to the government on ways to improve school accountability and performance. Peter is an accredited executive coach and has been involved in coaching experienced principals since 2004. From 2002 to 2006 Peter co-delivered a leadership team improvement program to leadership teams in both the Government and Catholic systems in Victoria. Peter’s writing on a range of education topics, and especially professional learning, school governance, performance reviews, curriculum, pedagogy and leadership, has been published in national and Victorian education journals.
Examples of past projects include: Review of Targeted School Improvement Strategies, DEECD; Review of senior secondary education, Hong Kong; Review of teacher professional learning strategies, Catholic Education Office; Development of implementation strategies to introduce a devolved education system, Republic of Azerbaijan, Evaluation of the Wannik tutoring project, DEECD, Advice on developing a School Charter, DEECD, Establishment of School Centres for Teaching Excellence, DEECD and Options for improving pre-service teacher education, DEECD.