Professional standards and ethics

The Northern Territory Professional Standards for Teachers fulfils the TRB NT’s statutory requirements under section 11 (f) and (h) of the Teacher Registration (Northern Territory) Act.

The professional standards provide:

• a clear public statement regarding the standards of the profession
• a basis for self-regulation
• a seamless guide for professional development for preservice teacher education through to established professional practice
• a focus for teachers to evaluate and analyse their practice and plan for professional development

The Professional Standards for Teaching recognises four career dimensions for which different standards might apply: graduate, competent, accomplished and leadership. Through the Standards Project (pdf 12 kb | rtf 212 kb), the Northern Territory has developed three of the four dimensions: graduate, competent and accomplished.

Classroom teachers in the Territory wrote the standards with reference to a variety of documents already in use in those States where the professional standards were in place. Through the writing and consultative process, the TRB has canvassed a wide cross section of teachers including Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers in urban and remote locations, government and independent schools, teachers working across all levels of schooling and specialist areas of education, and teacher educators in Northern Territory tertiary institutions.

• Graduate teachers (pdf 161 kb | rtf 387 kb)
• Competent teachers (pdf 164 kb | rtf 353 kb)
• Accomplished teachers (pdf 95 kb | rtf 342 kb)
• Graduate, competent and accomplished teachers (pdf 96 kb | rtf 234 kb)

Code of Ethics for Northern Territory teachers (pdf 149 kb | rtf 183 kb)