The Teaching Standards and Quality Assurance of Australia

In the light of teacher education reform, Australia improves professional standards continually and promotes teacher professional development. This article focuses on the Australian standards guided professional teaching system. The article is mainly to show how to build stronger links between teaching standards, performance assessment and teacher learning by moving toward a standards-guided professional development system for teaching, such as definition for teaching standards,professional principles,content standards,levels of statements about teaching standards,and the measures Australian government takes to assure the quality of the teaching profession.