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Gert Rijlaarsdam holds a position as full professor at the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (GSTL) of the University of Amsterdam, and had an additional position as professor in Language Education at Utrecht University, a position installed by the Dutch Association of Teachers of Living Languages (Dutch: Vereniging voor Leraren in Levende Talen) (from 1999-2004). He started as a teacher of Dutch Language and Literature at a school for secondary education, where he taught for 17 years. Meanwhile he studied Dutch Language and Literature (MA), Educational Studies (MA) both at Leiden University, and wrote his Ph D study on an empirical study about the effects of peer feedback on writing (University of Amsterdam,1986). From 1981 he combined his job as teacher with a part-time job at the educational research institute at the University of Amsterdam (called RITP, later SCO). There he got his on the job training as researcher from Hildo Wesdorp (1935-1987), together with Henk Blok, Kees de Glopper, and Huub van den Bergh. In 1988 he was appointed as associate professor (Dutch:
UHD) at the then newly
established Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (GSTL) at the University of
Amsterdam, with the special task to
create -- with two colleagues Geert ten Dam and Fred Korthagen -- an integrative post-graduate university institute for teacher
training, in-service training and research. Nowadays he is involved in teaching,
research, and curriculum development. He managed for
many years Development & Services. From 2006 until 2008 he was responsible for the
teacher training curriculum at the GSTL. In 2008-2009 he was programme manager for the EARLI 2009 conference. Since January 2010 he is is back in his role as manager of the division on Curriculum Development and Services.
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