Information Services

Internet Resources

Australian Sites

• Australian College of Educators
  • Teacher Standards, Quality and Professionalism Project
  • Standards of Professional Practice for Accomplished Teaching in Australian Classrooms [.PDF file, 17 pages]
    This document is the outcome of a collaborative exercise involving a number of professional associations who have been working on teaching standards for some time.
• Australian Teacher Education Association
  • ATEA Conference Papers
  • 2001 Conference Papers
  • Forum 2002 homepage
• Education Queensland: Employing Quality Teachers Information about working with EQ
• Guidelines for Teacher Education Programs
  Acrobat Reader booklet from the Queensland Board of Teacher Registration
• Review of Teaching and Teacher Education
  The Australian government is conducting a Teacher Review with a particular emphasis on the fields of science, technology and mathematics, in order to identify the skills and support needed by teachers to build a culture of continuous innovation in Australia'’s schools Professor Janet Greeley. Dean of AESS, is a member of the Review Committee.
• Review of Teacher Education in NSW
• Teacher Education: The Next Step
• Teachers for the 21st Century
  • Teachers for the 21st Century - Making the Difference: A Commonwealth Government Quality Teacher Initiative | .PDF Version [27 pages]
  • Improvement or Transformation: Proceedings of the National Conference on Quality Teaching, July 2001
  • National Information Exchange on Quality Teaching
    This site is for sharing information about best practice in teacher professional development, in particular information about activities funded through the Commonwealth's Teachers for the 21st Century initiative and its major component, the Quality Teacher Programme (QTP).

  Overseas Sites

• AERA Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education Section of the American Educational Research Association, provides full text of the Division newsletter
• ALPS: Active Learning Practice for Schools Based at Harvard, this is an electronic community dedicated to the improvement and advancement of educational instruction and practice.
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
  • AACTE Education Policy Clearinghouse Provides access to information on education policy in the US at the national, regional, and state levels.
• Association of Teacher Educators, US
• Beginning Teacher's Tool Box
• Bibliography: Teacher Induction and Mentoring
  List of resources compiled by NCREL, the U.S. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education
• The First Days of Middle School Help for all new teachers. Provides links to a number of selected sites on discipline and classroom management, the first days of school and more
• From College to First-Year Teaching
  A cross-national study of teacher induction practices that includes case studies of programs
  in Japan, New Zealand, and the Northern Territory of Australia.
• Teacher Training Agency (U.K.)
  • National Standards
• National Center for Research on Teacher Learning (US)
• New-Teacher.com Resource site for education students
• New Teachers On-Line A web site sponsored by Teachers Network, a professional community of teachers and educators working together to improve student achievement.
• Student Teaching Information for the school practicum from Canada
• Survival Guide for New Teachers Guide from the US Department of Education
• Teacher Learning - The NCRTL Home Page
  National Center for Research on Teacher Learning. Gives full text of conference papers, research reports etc.
• Teacher Quality US Education Department information
• Teacher Quality from North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
• What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching
  U.S.Department of Education site

	Electronic Journals

• Journal of In-Service Education Selected issues available free

Education Resources

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Please contact Helen Hooper if you have any comments, suggestions or additions.

Links checked February 2002; Updated October 2002 by lbcy,
Information and Research Support, James Cook University.