Bachelor of Education: Early Childhood
AQF Skills Specification: Cognitive and creative skills to exercise critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving problems with intellectual independence
Definition/Rationale: Thinking critically and creatively is essential to responding effectively to students, parents and other professionals. Such cognitive skills requires teachers to collect and understand
relevant information, generate a potential course of action or solution, implement that plan, evaluate the outcome and modify as required.
National Standards
for Teachers
First Year of Study
Second Year of Study
Third Year of Study
BEd Graduate
Novice Teacher
≈200 university credits
≈400 university credits
≈600 university credits
800 university credits
< 5 years Teaching
Know their students and Demonstrate fundamental
how they learn
understanding of human
developmental processes and
outcomes and learning theory
Demonstrate critical
understanding of the relationship
between student characteristics
and instructional practice
With supervision, conduct and
critique informal assessment of
student characteristics and evaluate
the effectiveness of lessons
Independently judge the quality of
informal assessment of student
characteristics and evaluate the
effectiveness of associated lessons
Having assessed student
characteristics and implemented
corresponding lessons, critically
evaluate lesson effectiveness
Know the content and how Demonstrate fundamental
to teach it
understanding of curriculum as
instructional content and
teaching methods
Demonstrate critical
understanding of the relationship
between content and teaching
methods
With supervision, identify and
critique instructional objectives,
materials and methods in core
curriculum areas
Independently evaluate the
effectiveness of instructional
objectives, materials and methods
in core curriculum areas
Judge the quality of specific
instructional objectives, materials
and methods in all required
curriculum areas
With supervision, create and
critique daily and topic lesson
plans across curriculum targets for
a variety of learners
Independently create and evaluate
daily, weekly and topic lesson
plans across core curriculum
targets for a variety of learners
Develop, evaluate and improve
daily, weekly, topic and long-range
lesson plans across all curriculum
targets for a wide variety of
learners
Create and maintain safe, Demonstrate fundamental
Critique principles of classroom
and supportive learning understanding of proactive and management to prevent and
environments
reactive classroom management resolve hypothetical (vignettes)
conflicts
With supervision, apply and
Independently apply and judge the
critique principles of proactive and effectiveness of proactive and
reactive classroom management
reactive classroom management
Maintain continuous observation
and judgement of the effectiveness
a wide variety of classroom
management strategies
Assess, provide feedback Demonstrate fundamental
report on student learning understanding of measurement
and assessment principles
Critique principles of
measurement and assessment in
hypothetical (vignettes) classroom
contexts
With supervision, create and
critique classroom assessments for
reporting and interpret standardized
test results
Independently evaluate the utility
of systems of reporting student
progress and judge the utility of
standardized test results
Critically evaluate and improve a
range of assessment strategies
(standardized and teacher-made) to
report student progress
Describe limitations of
professional reflection to improve
class assignments and university
learning and performance
With supervision, critically apply
professional reflection to evaluate
some teaching events and critique
strategies to improve subsequent
lessons
Independently apply professional
reflection to evaluate specific
teaching events and
generate/critique strategies for
continuous improvement
Apply professional reflection to
critically evaluate all teaching
events and generate/critique
strategies of continuous
improvement
Apply professional standards in
making judgements about the
teacher’s role in the school,
community and society
With supervision, solve problems
associated with school operations
such as student health emergencies,
aggression and family crisis
Independently solve problems
associated with school operations
such as student health emergencies,
aggression and family crisis
Critically apply professional codes
of conduct to satisfying all school,
community and professional
responsibilities
Plan for and implement
effective teaching and
learning
Engage in professional
learning and reflection
Demonstrate fundamental
Critique daily lesson plans across
understanding of daily, weekly, a range of core curriculum targets
topic and long-range lesson
for a variety of learners
planning
Demonstrate fundamental
understanding of the concepts of
reflective practice and
professional development
Contribute to school and Demonstrate fundamental
professional community understanding of the school as a
community and teaching as a
profession