Teacher education is high on the political agenda in Australia, with several parliamentary inquiries on the topic underway at federal and state levels. Drawing on a survey of all Victorian teachers who graduated from teacher education programs in 2002, Lawrence Ingvarson looks at how well these new teachers felt that their teacher education program had...

In a paper prepared for the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment and Training's Taskforce on Teacher Quality & Educational Leadership, Lawrence Ingvarson discusses what we mean by "good teaching" and considers what a national standards framework would include and how it would operate. He argues that no existing body has the capacity, or the acceptability...