Australia Association for Research in Education
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
This is how to reposition teachers as experts
20 years into a new century how do we understand educational expertise? In Finland teachers are trusted professionals, …
Impact: how to tell your extraordinary teaching story
Last week John Cole noted here that the current Highly Accomplished and Lead teachers (HALT) certification process is …
Why the push for tremendous teachers ground to a HALT
For more than five years there has been a vision to put a Highly Accredited or Lead Teacher …
Why we must talk about teacher professionalism now
In 2016, Judyth Sachs reflected on her 2003 monograph ‘The Activist Teaching Profession’ and asked, ‘Teacher professionalism: Why are we still talking about it?‘. In that paper, she argued ‘the time for an industrial approach to the teaching profession has passed’ and made a case for ‘systems, schools and teachers to be more research active …
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers are useful to teacher education students, here’s how
There is a strong critique of the impacts of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers from educational researchers. …