Rate My Professor Katherine McLay

In her current role, McLay teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, coordinating English Curriculum courses in the Bachelor of Education (Secondary), Master of Teaching (Secondary), and the Honours program within the Bachelor of Education (Primary). She co-chairs the School of Education’s Indigenous Engagement Committee, leading efforts to indigenise curriculum through staff workshops, funding for Indigenous resources, cultural capability modules, and collaborations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders and knowledge holders. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she contributes to teaching excellence in humanities, arts, and social sciences. Her research specializations include literacy, dialogic pedagogy, teacher professional learning, student wellbeing, and technology-enhanced learning. With 39 publications cited over 530 times, key works encompass Enacting Smart Pedagogy in Higher Education Contexts: Sensemaking through Collaborative Biography (2021), The impact of parent mediation on young children's home digital literacy practices (2023), Beyond TPACK: A case for foregrounding affect in technology rich 21st-century teaching and learning (2024), and Teacher relationships and social connectedness (2025). McLay is a member of the editorial team for Qwerty: Interdisciplinary Journal of Technology, Culture and Education.