Martha Goldman is a teacher and project manager with Tropical North Queensland TAFE in Cairns. Martha's interests include professional development, culturally inclusive teaching and learning, learning styles and practitioner-based research. Her current focus is developing a coaching and mentoring program for teachers, known as TROPIC (Teachers Reflecting On Practices In Classrooms). Martha was a Flexible Learning Leader in 2000.

Mark Davidson is the manager of the classroom profiling program, based at the Indigenous Education and Training Alliance, Education Queensland, Cairns. Mark has many years experience in primary school teaching and is an expert in positive supportive strategies for managing behaviour. Mark has developed a very successful and growing program known as 'classroom profiling', which assists teachers with developing their behaviour management skills. Website www.ieta.com.au/behaviour

In this interesting article Martha and Mark explore classroom profiling, where teacher-student interactions are observed and followed up with confidential, supportive, non-judgemental feedback for teachers. Well tested in primary and secondary contexts, this improvement process is being implemented in a vocational education and training (VET) context in Queensland, given the increasing numbers of younger than usual people attending TAFE.

This article was first published with AVETRA (See http://www.avetra.org.au)