This ACER report by Lawrence Ingvarson and Elizabeth Kleinhenz provides a review of national and international developments in relation to advanced standards and certification processes for teaching. It also considers the implications of current research on teaching for the development of advanced teaching standards and related improvements in teaching and learning.

Expectations of what teachers and school leaders should know and be able to do change over time and context, as they do in most professions. Standards must reflect those changes. But with school leaders, expectations often appear to have outstripped the quality and supply of training and support, argue the authors.