Education Council Standards for the Teaching Profession

The Education Council has released the new Standards for the Teaching Profession, which is named 'Our Code, Our Standards'.

This is in my view a useful document because they have simplified the ways in which various indicators of quality practice are grouped so that they have gone from 12 criteria and now have 6 areas of standard, each with up to 7 indicators that elaborate what each standard comprises of.

These are:

1. Te Tiriti o Waitangi
2. Professional learning
3. Professional relationships
4. Learning-focussed culture
5. Design for learning
6. Teaching