The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) are designed to clarify the knowledge, practice and professional engagement required for teachers – they also provide a common language for teachers, teacher educators / organisations, professional associations and the public.
The standards are used by all teachers in Australia and, in Victoria, underpin the requirements for:
- accreditation of initial teacher education programs
- teacher registration
- annual renewal.
You will use and demonstrate the standards when you have (full) registration, and undertake an annual renewal process to maintain the standards at the Proficient Teacher level.
Career stages
The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers are organised into four career stages designed to reflect the continuum of the development of your expertise as a teacher:
- Graduate Teacher
- Proficient Teacher
- Highly Accomplished Teacher
- Lead Teacher
We have adopted the Graduate and Proficient career stages for teacher registration and annual renewal. Although we don't adopt the Highly Accomplished and Lead career stages, individual jurisdictions may choose to use these as a guide with schools.
Read more about moving from provisional to (full) registration.
Read more about renewing your registration.
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
Domain | Standard |
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PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE |
1. Know learners and how they learn 2. Know the content and how to teach it |
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE |
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning 4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments 5. Assess, provide feedback and report on learning |
PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT |
6. Engage in professional learning 7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents / carers and community |
Download:
- Codes of Conduct (PDF, 1807.92 KB).
- Australia Professional Standards for Teachers - Graduate Teacher (PDF, 182.54 KB).
- Australian Professional Standards for Teachers - Proficient Teacher (PDF, 632.54 KB).
Read more about the Codes of Conduct and Ethics.
- Registration categories
- Maintaining my registration
- Renewing my registration
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Moving to (full) registration
- Inquiry approach
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Watch how to become (fully) registered with the VIT
- Watch ‘How to become (fully) registered – an overview
- Watch: ‘What you need before you begin'
- Watch 'How to choose the learners for your evidence based process'
- Watch 'How to develop your inquiry question'
- Watch ‘How to work with your mentor or experienced colleague’
- Watch ‘How to develop and implement your action plan’
- Watch ‘How to evaluate your practice’
- Watch ‘How to present to the recommendation panel’
- Watch ‘Other contexts’
- Recommendation process
- Resources
- Seminar information
- Illustrations of ECT practice
- Recognition of prior experience
- Moving to (full) registration during COVID-19
- Provisionally registered teacher survey results
- Effective Mentoring Program
- Casual relief teachers
- VIT’s new teacher registration system
- Returning to teaching
- Non-practising registration
- Special Needs Plan
- Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check
- Standards
- Fees