The review describes examples from different countries of practices in educational policy and teacher development focused on enhancing teacher quality. It identifies policies that support teacher development as well as the characteristics of effective pre-service teacher education programs and of high-quality professional learning programs for teachers. It acknowledges the need to modify and adapt intervention...

Australia’s best teachers should be paid almost $130,000 as a key step in recognising their value to society and strengthening the teaching profession, according to this report. The authors also recommend creating two new levels of teacher certification beyond initial registration, to allow the best teachers to be recognised as ‘accomplished’ and ‘leading’, as part...

This report is a critical review of the literature on the application of professional standards to teachers' practice. It looks at where professional standards sit in the complex mix of factors that can support teachers' professional capacity, how standards can support teacher learning, which models enhance and which detract from teachers' professional learning and the...

This report provides an overview of current pay arrangements and collective enterprise bargaining agreements for teachers in Australian schools. Gives an overview of recent Australian and international research on the attitudes of stakeholders to performance-based pay schemes for teachers, and thirdly looks at the gaps in the Australian and international evidence base on performance pay...

This ACER report by Lawrence Ingvarson and Elizabeth Kleinhenz provides a review of national and international developments in relation to advanced standards and certification processes for teaching. It also considers the implications of current research on teaching for the development of advanced teaching standards and related improvements in teaching and learning.