The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, and professionalism

Authors

Graeme Hall, Queensland University of Technology
Noelene L. Weatherby-Fell, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

103976

Publication Details

Hall, G. & Weatherby-Fell, N. L. (2015). The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, and professionalism. In N. L. Weatherby-Fell (Eds.), Learning to Teach in the Secondary School (pp. 241-260). Port Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on how professionalism underpins the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. These Standards provide a framework for what teachers know, understand and do within classroom learning environments and how their teaching practice can be described in terms of focus points for ongoing professional learning.