It is my pleasure to update you on the Assessment for Graduate Teaching (AfGT) in 2025 and thank you for your support of this national collaborative venture. As you may be aware, there were some important developments regarding the AfGT at the end of 2024. After five years of being hosted by the University of Melbourne, the AfGT is now being hosted by the University of Sydney, under the Direction of Associate Professor Wayne Cotton. The ability to move the AfGT to different host institutions among the Consortium is a testimony to the robustness of the tool; the shared responsibility for the tool that is held by consortium members; and the clear systems in place to support the AfGT’s management. 

We sincerely thank the University of Melbourne for supporting the Consortium and facilitating its establishment as a mature tool. Further, after five years as the inaugural Chair of the AfGT Consortium, Professor Janet Clinton has completed her term in this role. Professor Clinton’s significant contribution to the AfGT, and advocacy for the Consortium with our external stakeholders has ensured that the AfGT Consortium is in a strong position to contribute to current debates and discussions about teaching assessments nationally and internationally.

I am also delighted to have been elected to take up the position of Chair of the Consortium, having been instrumental in establishing the AfGT Consortium in 2016. I look forward to working closely with the Executive and the Consortium members more broadly, in what will be an important year for the Consortium. As has been mentioned at previous Consortium meetings, in 2025 we will be reviewing the AfGT to ensure that it meets the changing program, employment and technological contexts of teacher education and teaching performance assessments.