Strengthening Standards of Teaching through Linking Standards and Teacher Learning: The Development of Professional Standards for Teaching School Geography

Personnel: Dianne Mulcahy, Jeana Kriewaldt, and David Clarke



This innovative project sourced data from teachers and students via video enactments of accomplished teaching towards producing multiple and situated understandings of standards and thereby effecting a distinctive standards development approach. Capturing in a powerful and compelling fashion the unique and essential components of teachers’ professional practice, these video data were used additionally to elicit understandings of how these components can best be utilised to enhance teacher professional learning and, as a consequence, the quality of learning opportunities for students. These rich data not only formed the basis of a distinctive set of standards for school geography but also augmented existing knowledge of teacher learning.

Visit the project website for further information: www.geogstandards.edu.au