Cameron Paterson

Director of Learning, Wesley College

Cameron is the Director of Learning at Wesley College, Melbourne. Prior to this he was the Director of Learning and Teaching at Shore School, Sydney. He has taught in the Harvard Teacher Education Program and he works with Harvard’s Project Zero as an online course instructor and as faculty at the Project Zero Classroom. He initiated and co-leads the Project Zero Australia Network, providing free professional learning for thousands of educators. He has received several awards including, the Dr Paul Brock Medal from the Australian College of Educators, the 21st Century International Global Innovation Award for Teaching, a Churchill Fellowship, and he has been a top 50 nominee for the one-million-dollar Global Teacher Prize. Cameron is the co-editor of Flip the System Australia: What matters in education and a staff writer for Getting Smart. He is particularly interested in the gap between schools and learning.