Understand the Standards

The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (the Standards) reflect and build on national and international evidence that a teacher’s effectiveness has a powerful impact on students, with broad consensus that teacher quality is the single most important in-school factor influencing student achievement.

Professional standards for teachers guide professional learning, practice and engagement by facilitating the improvement of teacher quality and underpin the accreditation of initial teacher education programs.

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.