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Future Teacher Future Leader is AITSL’s national foresight initiative, designed to support the profession to look ahead and prepare proactively. AITSL established this initiative in late 2025 to explore what the future may mean for education.
The work does not predict a single future or propose a preferred model for Australian education. Instead, it uses a set of plausible scenarios to prompt strategic conversations about what could change, what those changes could mean and the choices that can be made today.
AITSL worked with key stakeholders to develop 4 scenarios, exploring how Australia’s F–12 education environment could evolve towards 2040.
The resources have been developed primarily for education systems, sectors, policymakers and organisations with responsibility for long-term strategy, policy, workforce planning and reform.
The scenarios can be used to explore a range of plausible futures, challenge assumptions about what may remain the same and consider how decisions made today might perform under different future conditions.
Australia’s education system has changed significantly over the past 75 years. From Stability to Saturation: 75 Years of Society and Schooling in Australia traces major shifts in society, technology, policy and schooling and shows how the environment surrounding teachers and school leaders has become increasingly complex.
The video provides historical context for the Future Teacher Future Leader initiative. Looking back at the scale and pace of past change helps us consider how education may continue to evolve and why decisions made today need to account for more than one possible future.
This video reflects on the past 75 years of education in Australia and highlights how schools and education systems have continually adapted to changing societal expectations, technologies, pressures and priorities.
Australia’s teachers and leaders work within a complex and changing environment. Technological development, workforce trends, policy settings and broader societal change may all influence how education evolves.
Too often, responses to change are reactive and issues are only identified and addressed once they escalate. How can we look ahead with clarity? What if we could plan confidently, strengthen capability and adapt early before change happens?
Foresight provides a structured way to consider these changes before their full effects are known. Exploring a range of possible futures can help:
This work is not about predicting the future. It is about exploring plausible future scenarios and understanding what they might mean for the profession, strengthening the sector’s readiness for what may lay ahead.
By exploring future possibilities today, we empower the profession with the clarity, skills, and confidence needed to lead change and create lasting impact for every learner.
For questions about the Future Teacher Future Leader initiative, contact [email protected]