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What Happened To The National Statement For The Teaching Profession?, Lawrence C. Ingvarson Jan 2013

What Happened To The National Statement For The Teaching Profession?, Lawrence C. Ingvarson

Dr Lawrence Ingvarson (Consultant)

In 2003, 15 teacher associations put together a National Statement from the Teaching Profession on Teacher Standards, Quality and Professionalism. It recommended that A nationally coordinated, rigorous and consistent system should be established to provide recognition to teachers who demonstrate advanced standards . . . The enterprise bargaining process between employers and unions will be an important mechanism for providing recognition for professional certification. All employing authorities should be encouraged to provide recognition and support for professional certification as the process comes to demonstrate its credibility and its effects on professional learning. (p. 4) The Statement was the culmination of …


Establishing A National Certification System For Teachers: How Are We Doing?, Lawrence C. Ingvarson Dec 2012

Establishing A National Certification System For Teachers: How Are We Doing?, Lawrence C. Ingvarson

Dr Lawrence Ingvarson (Consultant)

Any serious policies about teacher quality must address the challenge of making sure teaching can compete with other professions for its share of high quality graduates from schools and universities. Recent research shows that it is the salaries of experienced teachers relative to other professions that distinguishes countries with higher student achievement. Beginning with the 1998 a Senate Inquiry into the Status of Teaching, a string of reports recommended that a professional certification should be established to provide recognition to highly accomplished teachers and that education authorities should structure remuneration accordingly. In 2010 the Australian Institute for Teaching and School …


Comments On Deecd Discussion Paper: New Directions For School Leadership And The Teaching Profession, June 2012, Lawrence C. Ingvarson Sep 2012

Comments On Deecd Discussion Paper: New Directions For School Leadership And The Teaching Profession, June 2012, Lawrence C. Ingvarson

Dr Lawrence Ingvarson (Consultant)

The Discussion Paper identifies three fronts on which the Victorian Government will take action over the next ten years. Action 1: Attract great people into teaching: attract stronger candidates and improve their preparation. Action 2: Create a high performance profession: stimulate a culture of excellence and effective professional development. Action 3: Provide strong direction and support: elevate the role of leadership at school and system levels. As a general observation, each of these areas for action is important. The diagnosis of areas requiring action is accurate. However, the prescription is weak in some areas and needs to be strengthened.


Teaching Must Be Able To Attract Its Share Of Talented Graduates, Lawrence C. Ingvarson Jun 2012

Teaching Must Be Able To Attract Its Share Of Talented Graduates, Lawrence C. Ingvarson

Dr Lawrence Ingvarson (Consultant)

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Assessing Teachers For Professional Certification: Achieving National Consistency, Lawrence C. Ingvarson Feb 2011

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?


Research On Performance Pay For Teachers, Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Jenny Wilkinson Apr 2009

Research On Performance Pay For Teachers, Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Jenny Wilkinson

Dr Lawrence Ingvarson (Consultant)

This report falls into three main sections, in accordance with the project brief. The first provides an overview of current pay arrangements and collective enterprise bargaining agreements for teachers in Australian schools. Within these arrangements, the report gives particular attention to provisions for performance-based pay schemes and to identifying potential impediments to the introduction of performance-based pay for teachers. The second part of the brief called for an overview of recent Australian and international research on the attitudes of stakeholders to performance-based pay schemes for teachers and the impact of these schemes on, for example, teacher retention, improved teaching standards, …


Getting Performance Pay Right, Lawrence Ingvarson Apr 2009

Getting Performance Pay Right, Lawrence Ingvarson

Dr Lawrence Ingvarson (Consultant)

Performance based pay has recently swung into the political spotlight as one way to 'revitalise' Australia’s teaching profession. Dr Lawrence Ingvarson reviews current pay structures in Australia and around the world, the impact of performance pay schemes already in existence, and the possibilities for performance pay. Recognition, remuneration and reward in teaching came under extensive review in an ACER report commissioned by the Australian Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). The report examined current pay systems for teachers and evidence on the impact of different kinds of performance pay arrangements in Australia and several countries around the world, and …