Professional standards for teachers: a case study of professional learning

This paper analyses the current Australian policy and research context in relation to developing quality teachers. Like other countries, many educational authorities in Australia are developing professional standards for teachers and the evaluation of teachers against those standards as a mechanism for ensuring and extending the quality of teaching in schools. A key policy consideration involves the use of professional standards as tools for extending professional learning and/or for credentialing and appraisal. This paper considers these uses of standards by drawing on an evaluation of Education Queensland's Professional Standards for Teachers pilot. The pilot focused on using a set of standards as a framework for professional learning. Teachers' perspectives on the standards and their intended use, their engagement with the standards during the pilot and the nature of professional learning associated with that engagement are discussed in light of current policy debates about professional standards.     

Australian Communication Books

CULTURE, COMMUNICATION, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE CASE OF CANADIAN TELEVISION by Richard Collins (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990—$45.00/19.95, ISBN 0-8020-2733-4 hard, 0-8020-6772-7 paper, 368 pp.)

WHEN TELEVISION WAS YOUNG: PRIMETIME CANADA 1952-1967 by Paul Rutherford (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990—$60.00/25.00, ISBN 0-8020-5830-2 hard, 0-8020-6647-X, paper, 637 pp)

THE SILENT REVOLUTION: MEDIA DEMOCRACY, AND THE FREE TRADE DEBATE edited by James P. Winter (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1990—$18.95, paper, ISBN 0-7766-0296-9, 196 pp.)

THE NEWSMAKERS: BEHIND THE CAMERAS WITH CANADA'S TOP TV JOURNALISTS edited by Linda Frum (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1990—$26.95, ISBN 1-55013-168-0, 228 pp.)

HISTORY AND COMMUNICATIONS: HAROLD INNLS, MARSHALL McLUHAN, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY by Grahme Patterson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990—$40.00/16.95, ISBN 0-8020-2764-4 hard, 0-8020-6810-3 paper, 240 pp.)

ON AIR: RADIO IN SASKATCHEWAN by Wayne Schmalz (Regina: Coteau Books, 1990—$24.95/14.95, ISBN 1-5505-010-4 hard, 1-5505-009-0, 167 pp.)

COMMUNICATION: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE by Thomas and Brenda McPhail (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1990—$22.95, paper, ISBN 0-7730-4685-2, 408 pp.)

THE RISE OF CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS by Douglas Fetherling (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990—$9.95, paper, ISBN 0-19-540707-5, 144 pp.)

22:267 THE MASS MEDIA IN CANADA by Mary Vipond (Toronto: James Lorimer, 1990—$29.95/16.95, ISBN not given, 185 pp.)

PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS IN RISK COMMUNICATION edited by William Leiss (Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo Press/Institute for Risk Research, 1989—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-88890-095-7, 216 pp.)

THE JOURNALIST'S LEGAL GUIDE by Michael Crawford (Toronto: Carswell, 1990—$58.00/34.95, ISBN 0-459-33867-0 hard, 0-459-33877-X paper, 320 pp.)

CANADIAN ILLUSTRATED NEWS, MONTREAL, 1869-1883: AN INDEX compiled by Andrea Retfalvi (Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto, 1989—$50.00, paper, ISBN 0-7727-2432-6, 368 pp.)

ACCESS CANADA: MICROMEDIA'S DIRECTORY OF CANADIAN INFORMATION SOURCES edited by Donna Yawching (Toronto: Micromedia, 1990—$125, paper, ISBN 0-88892-601-4, 310 pp.)

SULTANS OF SLEAZE: PUBLIC RELATIONS AND THE MEDIA by Joyce Nelson (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1990—$14,95, paper, ISBN 0-921284-23-3, 168 pp.)

THE BAREFOOT CHANNEL: COMMUNITY TELEVISION AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE by Kim Goldberg (Vancouver: New Star Books, 1990—$14.95, paper, no ISBN given, 207 pp.)

THE RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC SERVANT by Kenneth Kernaghan and John W. Langford (Halifax, Nova Scotia: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1990—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0-88645-09903, 220 pp.)

GETTING THE REAL STORY: CENSORSHIP AND PROPAGANDA IN SOUTH AFRICA edited by Gerald B. Sperling and James E. McKenzie (Calgary: Detselig Enterprises, 19907mdash;$12.95, paper, ISBN 1-55059-009-X, 168 pp.)

CANADIAN TELECOM (AB&;Y Publishing, WaterPark Place, 20 Bay St. Suite 1603, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N8—$55.00 per year, bi-monthly)     

Foreign Communications

Sue Pyne's “Current British Research on Mass Media and Mass Communication: Register of Ongoing and Recently Completed Research” (Documentation Centre for Mass Communication Research, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, 104 Regent Rd., Leicester LE1 7LT, England---£2.00 in the UK and £2.50 outside, paper)

British broadcasting annual yearbooks (BBC and IBA)

David Ellis' Evolution of the Canadian Broadcasting System: Objectives and Realities, 1928-1968 (Canadian Government Printing Office, Mail Order Service, 270 Albert St., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0S9 ---$3.90, paper)

John C. Merrill and Harold A. Fisher's The World's Great Dailies: Profiles of 50 Newspapers (New York: Hastings House, 1980---$18.50/9.50)

Australian media, eight recent items reviewed by Henry Mayer

Harold D. Lasswell, Daniel Lerner, and Hans Speier, eds. Propaganda and Communication in World History: Volume III, A Pluralizing World in Formation (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1980---$25.00)     

More on Cinema

Robert M. Henderson's D.W. Griffith: His Life and Work ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1972—$10.95)

Fred Silva (ed.) Focus on The Birth of a Nation (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971—$2.45, paper)

David Mayer's Eisenstein's Potemkin: A Shot-By-Shot Presentation (New York: Grossman, 1972— $10.00/4.50)

Cinemabilia Catalogue of Film Literature (New York: Cinemabilia, 10 Cornelia St., 1972—$2.50, paper)

Lawrence Alloway's Violent America: The Movies 1946-1964 (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971—$7.95)

Roger Kahle and Robert E.A. Lee's Popcorn and Parable: A New Look at the Movies (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1971—$2.95, paper)

Hugh B. Churchill's Film Editing Handbook: Technique of 16 mm Film Cutting (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1972—$4.95, paper)

Tony Miller and Patricia George Miller's Cut! Print! The Language and Structure of Filmmaking (Los Angeles: O'Hara Publications, 5650 West Washington Blvd., 1972—$5.50 with 20% discount to schools, paper)     

Field placement issues: From theory to practice

The significance of the field placement's rolein the professional education of schoolcounselors is explored. A model is proposed formatching students with field placementsettings, to be used as a tool to facilitateother institutions. The article details with variousguidelines for organizing a field placementprogram in counselor education. Issues such asapplication procedures, selection of sites,evaluation, responsibilities of students andsupervisors, and the role of supervision arediscussed.