Professional Standards & Responsibilities

Question 1

professional standards

Answer 1

range of competencies that teachers require to be accredited to teach within a particular education system

AITSL (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership)
National Professional Standards for Teachers

Question 2

AITSL national professional standards for teaching

Answer 2

Professional KNOWLEDGE

1. Know students and how they learn
2. Know the content and how to teach it

Professional PRACTICE

3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
5. Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning

Professional ENGAGEMENT

6. Engage in professional learning
7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community

Question 3

professional ethics

Answer 3

AITSL 7 Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community

7. 1 Meet professional ethics and responsibilities
8. 2 Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements

Department of Education Code of Conduct

Values
Learning
Excellence
Equity
Care

Principles
Personal behaviour
Communication and official information
Fraudulent and corrupt behaviour
Use of public resources
Record keeping
Use of information
Conflict of interest

Question 4

personal ethics

Answer 4

right conduct and practice
in harmony with the school’s code of conduct
confidentiality
private life discretion

Question 5

duty of care

Answer 5

imposed by the law for teachers to take care to minimise the risk of harm to students

requires that reasonable steps be taken by staff to protect students from risks that are reasonably foreseeable and/or to prevent students from injuring themselves or others, or damaging property