Dr. Michelle Attard Tonna

Michelle Attard Tonna is an academic member of staff at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta, coordinating school-based mentoring on a national level. This role oversees the mentoring of student-teachers during their field placement and whereby teachers based in schools are trained to be mentors. She is also Deputy Dean of the Faculty and Head of Department of Leadership for Learning and Innovation.
Her current research interests focus on teacher mentoring, lesson study and teacher professional growth. She has completed a PhD with the University of Aberdeen, UK, basing her research on professional teacher professional learning in Malta.