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Assessing Teachers For Professional Certification: Achieving National Consistency, Lawrence C. Ingvarson
Assessing Teachers For Professional Certification: Achieving National Consistency, Lawrence C. Ingvarson
Dr Lawrence Ingvarson (Consultant)
The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) has been charged with responsibility for developing and implementing a nationally consistent and credible voluntary system for the certification of highly accomplished teachers in Australia. This article focuses on the challenge of achieving such as system. What might be involved and how might such a system be achieved?
Trust The Teaching Profession With The Responsibilities Of A Profession., Lawrence C. Ingvarson
Trust The Teaching Profession With The Responsibilities Of A Profession., Lawrence C. Ingvarson
Dr Lawrence Ingvarson (Consultant)
Teaching may be unique among professions in that governments, not practitioners, define the standards teachers must meet, despite the work of dozens of subject associations. With Canberra proposing a performance pay system that is doomed to fail, Ingvarson says it’s time to trust the professionals.