Professional Standards for Teaching School Geography

Professional standards for accomplished teaching school geography and further material is available at www.geogstandards.edu.au.

Further information

If you would like more information, please contact
Jeana Kriewaldt
jeana@unimelb.edu.au
Melbourne Graduate School of Education,
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
Telephone: 03 8344 3753
Facsimile: 03 8344 8490

We thank everyone who has contributed, either as one of the ten accomplished geography teachers in government and non-government schools in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia who were filmed, or through attendance at one of the panel meetings or through responding to the online feedback pages.

The standards were developed from:

video footage of ten accomplished geography teachers in government and non-government schools in three states;
project website;
online survey which gathered responses to questions concerning the lesson videotapes of the teachers;
17 panel meetings in five states;
summary of responses from the meetings, the online survey and written responses.

This project was partly funded through an Australian Research Council Linkages grant. It is an initiative of the

Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne
Australian Geography Teachers' Association (AGTA)
Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria (GTAV)
Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT)

The writers and facilitators for the standards were:
Dr Dianne Mulcahy – monicadm@unimelb.edu.au
Jeana Kriewaldt – jeana@unimelb.edu.au
Nick Hutchinson – nhut1001@bigpond.net.au
Roger Smith – rogersmith@hotkey.net.au