The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers were developed by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership to both improve teacher practice and guide career progression. The Standards map teacher development across four career stages from Graduate to Lead teacher and are organized by domains, practice illustrations, and focus areas to provide clarity on performance expectations. The Standards aim to improve teaching quality and provide a common language for ongoing professional learning and career advancement.
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Australian Teacher Standards Unpacked
1. Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership
Australian Professional Standards for
Teachers
Unpacking the Standards
2. • Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (the Standards)
• Standards animation (video)
• Purpose of the Standards
• Organisation of the Standards
• Resources to support the Standards
• The Standards infographic
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Australian Professional Standards for Teachers animation – 6.36min
This is an engaging introduction to the presentation providing participants with a broad understanding about the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (the Standards).
This animation describes what the Standards are and why they have been developed.
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The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians commits Australia to ambitious goals for education. We have agreed that all young Australians should become
successful learners
as well as confident and creative individuals and
active and informed citizens.
How is it possible to ensure that all our students achieve success? The answer is good teaching. If there is one area of agreement in Australian education, it is this: good teachers generate good learning.
This is the starting point for the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (the Standards).
They are based on the belief that every young Australian must gain the benefit of a high quality education, and that good teaching is an essential element for that result.
They represent a national commitment to achieving the highest possible level of teacher quality so each young Australian can gain the best possible education.
Equity is built in, not an add on, and the Standards make a contribution to the critical goal in the Melbourne Declaration: ‘Australian schooling promotes equity and excellence’.
Equity in education consists mainly in doing whatever is required to ensure that each child achieves the best education of which he or she is capable. It is for this reason, the Standards are intended for every teacher of every student.
The classroom teacher is the key audience for these Standards.
Why? Because it is in the quality of every classroom teacher that the quality of an education system lives. The quality of an education system lives and breathes in the endeavours and quality of every classroom teacher.
So, supporting teachers to plan and manage their career path from initial training, induction and early experience through to the heights of the profession is vital. The Standards are intended to play a key role in supporting teachers. They provide a map of that progression from Graduate through Proficient and Highly Accomplished to Lead teacher.
They will help teachers work out what they need to learn in order to become the kinds of teachers that students need.
As teachers progress through their careers, they expand their capacity and take on new roles.
Some move into formal leadership roles.
Others exercise peer leadership, and the Standards define the contribution our Highly Accomplished and Lead teachers make to improving teaching and student learning, strengthening the profession and enhancing community relationships.
The Standards also articulate the personal skills needed by our best teachers: skills in collaboration, modeling, influencing, coaching, mentoring and supporting. Those teachers who are at the peak of the profession are our best resource in delivering on our most ambitious goals for young Australians.
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Organisation of the Standards
The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers comprise seven Standards which outline what teachers should know and be able to do. The Standards are interconnected, interdependent and overlapping.
The Standards are grouped into three domains of teaching: Professional Knowledge, Professional Practice and Professional Engagement. In practice, teaching draws on aspects of all three domains.
Click to the next slide to drill down into the focus areas and descriptors of the Standards
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Organisation of the Standards (cont)
Click to reveal the key elements of the Standards (5 arrows in total will appear)
Within each Standard, focus areas provide further illustration of teaching knowledge, practice and professional engagement. These are then separated into Descriptors at four professional career stages: Graduate, Proficient, Highly Accomplished and Lead.
The focus areas and descriptors identify the components of quality teaching at each career stage. They constitute agreed characteristics of the complex process of teaching. An effective teacher is able to integrate and apply knowledge, practice and professional engagement as outlined in the descriptors to create teaching environments in which learning is valued.
Illustrations of Practice show what the Standard looks like at a particular career stage. They maybe a video demonstrating a particular focus area (Dynamic Illustration), or an annotated lesson plan or unit of work (Static Illustration) or a combination of both.
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Video – This video explains the online resources available to support the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
Video length: 3.00min
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This is a graphical representation of the Standards. If you click on this page arrows (6 in total) will appear to highlight the key aspects to the infographhic. This is available as a PDF printout.
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Social media is becoming an effective medium to connect, share and collaborate with educators within Australia and all over the world through professional learning networks (PLNs) and communities of practice.
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