Rate My Professor Kate Ferguson-Patrick

Throughout her career, she has developed professional development programs for early career teachers on implementing cooperative strategies and democratic processes. She led initiatives in the Australian Government Quality Teaching Project as an academic mentor and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Umeå in Sweden and the University of Hull in the UK. Notable awards include the 2012 Faculty of Education and Arts Postgraduate Research Publication Prize, the 2014 Dean of Education Award for Excellence in Teaching (team), multiple College Excellence Awards in 2022, 2024, and 2025, and a 2024 Advance HE Global Impact Grant for innovative curriculum development linking quality education to sustainable development. Her key publications include the book 'Cooperative Learning for Intercultural Classrooms: Case Studies for Inclusive Pedagogy' (2018, with W. Jolliffe), and articles such as 'Integrating curriculum: A case study of teaching global education' (2018, 91 citations), 'Professional development of early career teachers: A pedagogical focus on cooperative learning' (2011, 76 citations), and recent works on collaborative problem-solving in mathematics (2025) and teacher expectations across countries (2025). As chief investigator and community outreach coordinator for the GERT team, and member of Pacific RISE, her work promotes 21st-century learning, collaboration, and global citizenship, influencing teacher education internationally through publications, presentations in Australia, Hong Kong, UK, Spain, and Sweden, and curriculum innovations impacting over 600 pre-service teachers.