This paper reports a research project that was conducted in 2009 and 2010 to support new teachers in the areas of Design and Technology and Home Economics. As a result of a retraining program, teachers in these areas were posted to remote schools, and the concern was that the combined difficulties of a new teaching area and a remote location would…

Teaching standards are regularly described as a mechanism for improving the status of the teaching profession and as a means to develop high-quality teachers. Less attention has been paid to the difficulties of fostering professional learning when externally produced standards are imposed on teachers. This paper outlines how lesson study can…

Provides an overview of papers presented at the Scholarship of Teaching Economics conference held at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in July 2000. Considers who should determine the curriculum, what should be taught, and how the curriculum should be taught. (RLH)