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ReachOut provided all my students with the mental health videos which they loved!

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A safe place to chat anonymously, get support, and feel better.

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Prexi was the second website option for my students to chose from to create their own concept map about a mental health issue

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Open Canvas

Create, organize, and move freely on an open canvas. Create seamless presentations without the restrictions of linear slides.

Ready-made asset libraries

Choose from millions of images, stickers, GIFs, and icons from Unsplash and Giphy.

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Presentations and videos with engaging visuals for hybrid teams | Prezi Present

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Welcome to Prezi, the presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make you a great presenter.

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We used Canva in my learning sequence for the students to construct their mind map about mental health issue they chose

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Australian Curriculum Focus Areas for HPE

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Australian Curriculum Focus Areas for HPE

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Learning Sequence assessment based off this unit but changing it into SAMR model!

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Learning Sequence assessment based off this unit but changing it into SAMR model!

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Year 9 HPE Curriculum and Assessment Plan

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Year 9 HPE Curriculum and Assessment Plan

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Students are going to type their notes on a school computer instead of writing their notes. Students can get notes via a digital interactive whiteboard or online worksheet/PDF

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Students now have access to internet to gather more research outside of the teachers PDF or digital interactive whiteboard which the students can find their own research now!

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The task is modified now to the students forming a powerpoint slide about their research findings

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Instant software downloads

Install most apps and software, like Microsoft 365, Windows, and Xbox games, via digital download.

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Improve your skills across core apps and software with free online classes and trainings led by Microsoft Store associates.

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Get one-on-one support any time via chat or phone, or find answers fast with common FAQs.

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Buy Microsoft PowerPoint (PC or Mac) | Price with Microsoft 365 or Standalone - Microsoft Store Australia

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The students completely redefine the task by creating a game called "the best version of me" which images of unhealthy food/ drink options appear and the students can play by directing it to the healthy or non-healthy decision sides. This way the students have created and expressed their creativity and created their own game for the class to enjoy! Using online learning platforms like Raptivity or a Kahoot quiz indicating Good or Bad Choices

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Raptivity - New Age eLearning Interaction Builder

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Raptivity is a must-have tool for instructional designers, corporate trainers, and higher-ed professors to create eLearning interactions in a snap.

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Cool Australia has been supporting teachers since 2008, providing them with learning activities and resources that make teaching and understanding real world scenarios as easy as possible.

Units, lessons and activities are Australian curriculum aligned and FREE to educators and students. You can choose to follow full units of study or pick individual lessons to fit in with your curriculum.

New Lessons aligned to New Zealand curriculum

Check out our first NZ curriculum aligned lessons, developed with our 2040 partners to support growing demand from the New Zealand teaching community.

The Cool Australia team are working on developing additional resources for New Zealand teachers. If you have a topic or partner of particular interest, please email our education team and let them know.

FEATURED UNITS

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This unit investigates the archival documentary technique used in The Final Quarter.

These lessons have been prepared to support teachers in exploring the topics of archival documentaries, filmmaking and film analysis, through the lens of The Final Quarter documentary.

This unit unpacks the Nutrition Information Panel (NIP) on packaged food. It demystifies the sometimes complicated range of terms and figures,
and explores how the NIP can be co-opted by advertising techniques.

This unit focuses on best practices to include everyone in the classroom. It explores difference and similarity, and helps students take steps to create a welcoming, inclusive environment.

This unit contains six lessons for Years 3-8 and is designed to support you and your students to produce quality films for the MobileMuster Film Competition.

We have also prepared a competition preparation kit for 2020 which you can access here.

A family tree is a way we can keep track of our family connections. In nature, trees are also a pretty good way to keep track of what life is around. In this activity, you will learn about biodiversity and the ways that trees support a variety of life.

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Cool Australia - FREE Teacher Curriculum Resources

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Cool Australia has been supporting teachers since 2008, providing them with learning activities and resources that make teaching and understanding real world scenarios as easy as possible. Units, lessons and activities are Australian curriculum aligned and FREE to educators and students.

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Important document while using online platforms for your students

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Twinkl has mainly primary school resources but here are year 5 and 6 resources that maybe still beneficial for the lower academic students in year 7 or maybe 8

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Years 5 and 6 HPE | Primary Resources - Twinkl

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Use these handy Health and Physical Education resources for the Australian curriculum. Teacher-made and perfect for your Years 5-6 lessons.

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Teach Starter has loads of content not just for HPE but all subject areas, here is the link into the HPE resources

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Health and Physical Education teaching resources for primary school students and teachers. This large selection of educational resources includes posters,…

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High School resources for their mental health, as an educator it is important we look after our students not just in stressful times but all the time!

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Mental health resources for high school students - Black Dog Institute

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Our range of evidence-informed mental health resources and tools have been developed for Australian teachers, students, parents and carers. They are free and available for you to use today.

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Student Wellbeing is for teachers and parents to access

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Welcome to the Student Wellbeing Hub homepage.

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Is specifically for HPE unit with a range of resources no matter the sport

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Structure

The Australian Curriculum is designed to develop successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens. It is presented as a progression of learning from Foundation - Year 10 that makes clear to teachers, parents, students and others in the wider community what is to be taught, and the quality of learning expected of young people as they progress through school.

The primary audience for the Australian Curriculum is teachers. The curriculum is concise and is expressed in plain language while preserving a complexity appropriate for professional practitioners. Consistency in terms of language and broad structure supports teachers in and across learning areas.

The whole curriculum

The Foundation - Year 10 Australian Curriculum is described as a three-dimensional curriculum that recognises the central importance of disciplinary knowledge, skills and understanding; general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities.

Disciplinary knowledge is found in the eight learning areas of the Australian Curriculum: English, Mathematics, Science, Health and Physical Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts, Technologies and Languages. The latter four learning areas have been written to include multiple subjects, reflecting custom and practice in the discipline. In each learning area or subject, content descriptions specify what young people will learn; and achievement standards describe the depth of understanding and the sophistication of knowledge and skill expected of students at the end of each year level or band of years in their schooling.

Alongside disciplinary knowledge, the Australian Curriculum provides seven general capabilities: Literacy; Numeracy; Information and Communication Technology Capability; Critical and Creative Thinking; Personal and Social Capability; Ethical Understanding; and Intercultural Understanding. The general capabilities comprise an integrated and interconnected set of knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that apply across subject-based content and equip students to be lifelong learners and be able to operate with confidence in a complex, information-rich, globalised world. In the Australian Curriculum, the general capabilities are developed and applied, where relevant, through the learning areas. An icon-tagging system is used to show where this can be done. General capabilities are also identified where they offer opportunities to add depth and richness to student learning via optional content elaborations. Learning continua have been developed for each capability to describe the relevant knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions at particular points of schooling.

The Australian Curriculum also includes three current cross-curriculum priorities that are to be developed, where relevant, through the learning areas. These are: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures; Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia; and Sustainability. The priorities are not separate subjects in themselves; they are addressed through learning area content, where appropriate, and identified by icons. A set of organising ideas that reflect the essential knowledge, understanding and skills has been developed for each cross-curriculum priority.

The three dimensions of the Australian Curriculum

Learning areas

The key elements of the Foundation - Year 10 Australian Curriculum learning areas or subjects are achievements standards and content descriptions. These are presented with other learning area or subject information including year-level descriptions, rationale, aims, key ideas, structure and representation of general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities.

Achievement standards and work samples

Achievement standards for each learning area or subject describe the learning expected of students at each year level or band of years. Each achievement standard is described in two paragraphs. Typically, the first paragraph describes what students are expected to understand, and the second paragraph describes what students are expected to be able to do having been taught the curriculum content. The set of achievement standards for each learning area or subject describe a broad sequence of expected learning.

The achievement standard for each year level or band should be read as a whole (that is, the 'understanding' and 'skills' paragraphs are read together) and in the context of what is to be taught (content descriptions) for that year or band. The achievement standards provide a clear description of student learning and are, therefore, a useful starting point or driver for the development of teaching and learning programs. The achievement standard also allows teachers to monitor student learning and to make judgements about student progress and achievement. For each learning area or subject, the achievement standards are accompanied by portfolios of annotated work samples that illustrate the expected learning for each year level or band.

In addition to the subject-specific achievement standards, new learning area achievement standards have been provided for Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts and Technologies. The default view for Technologies and The Arts is the subject-specific achievement standard; to view the learning area achievement standard select the link at the end of the achievement standard. The default view for Humanities and Social Sciences is the learning area achievement standard; to view the subject-specific achievement standard select the link at the end of the achievement standard. State and territory school and curriculum authorities determine the reporting requirements for their schools and should be consulted about whether learning area or subject-specific achievement standards are to be used for reporting.

Content descriptions and elaborations

Content descriptions describe what is to be taught and what students are expected to learn. Content descriptions include knowledge, understanding and skills, described at a year level or band of years. The content descriptions are accompanied by content elaborations, which are optional, and are provided to give teachers ideas about how they might teach the content.

Organisation and structural features of each learning area

Within the learning areas, there are many common structural and organisational features. The division of learning areas into subjects, strands, sub-strands and/or threads, which are presented as learning sequences across years or bands of schooling, ensures significant structural consistency throughout the curriculum. The combination of common structural features with one or more distinctive elements specific to a learning area ensures a learning area structure that is recognisable as the Australian Curriculum but is tailored for each particular learning area.

Year or bands of years

Each learning area or subject of the Australian Curriculum is presented as a sequence of learning (content descriptions and achievement standards) over time. The organisation varies to reflect the particular learning area including the specificity of evidence-based teaching sequence, its priority for teaching time and the need for flexibility to assist schools in planning and programming. English and Mathematics are specified at each year level from Foundation - Year 10. Some aspects of Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health and Physical Education are specified at a year level; and other aspects, at two- or three-year bands. The Arts, Technologies and Languages are specified at two- or three-year bands.

Year level descriptions and/or band descriptions assist teachers by providing important information about the learning contexts that apply to the content descriptions and achievement standards at a particular year or band of years.

Learning areas, subjects, strands

The learning areas of English, Mathematics, Science, Health and Physical Education comprise a single subject. The learning areas of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts, Technologies and Languages each comprise multiple subjects. This reflects the custom and practice of each discipline.

Within each learning area or subject, the largest structural unit for content is a strand. Typically strands are further divided into sub-strands and/or threads, which are populated with content descriptions. The sequence of strands, sub-strands and threads from Foundation - Year 10 within each learning area or subject is most easily viewed in the scope and sequence documents, provided as PDFs, in the learning area section of the website.

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The Australian Curriculum is designed to develop successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens. It is presented as a progression of learning from Foundation - Year 10 that makes clear to teachers, parents, students and others in the wider community what is to be taught, and the quality of learning expected of young people as they progress through school.

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Linking Scootle again as this is the direct link into the HPE subject

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The Australian Curriculum as displayed in my General Resources column shows the general capabilities for each curriculum area. This is the Health and Physical Education section which breaks down into literacy, numeracy, intercultural understanding, ICT capability, critical and creative thinking, personal and social capability and ethical understandings throughout the subject.

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Blogger is an online platform that teachers can freely share their learning on through a personal blog space.

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Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.

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Publish your passions your way. Whether you'd like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.

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Another amazing website that caters to different year levels HPE based

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Health and Physical Education is an important subject, but one that is often brushed to the side in favour of traditional subjects such as maths, English, science and humanities. R.I.C. Publications has a range of educational resources that will bring the interest and excitement of learning about health and physical education back to the subject. Our products include teacher resources, blackline masters and posters to assist teachers in these areas.

These products are cover a range of different topics: from motor skills and games that promote physical health, to lifestyle choices and self-esteem that cover mental health. We also have books and posters that cover bullying and conflict resolution-topics that affect students across many year levels. These resources aim to promote awareness of what bullying is and how to deal with it appropriately.

We also have Bullying in a cyber world: a very timely release aimed to inform students of how bullying is not just face-to-face or restricted to the school environment. There are supporting posters to go along with this resource.

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Health and Physical Education is an important subject, but one that is often brushed to the side in favour of traditional subjects such as maths, English, science and humanities. R.I.C. Publications has a range of educational resources that will bring the interest and excitement of learning about health and physical education back to the subject.

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C2C links to Curriculum resources

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Department of Education, Training and Employment

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© The State of Queensland (Department of Education and Training) 2016.

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Youtube for Kids is a great online resource that teachers can find educational content on that links to their focus areas within their subjects. Youtube Kids has a privacy setting to ensure no student sees content they shouldn't be seeing otherwise Youtube may show inappropriate content that teachers need to be aware of.

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Kahoot is an interactive online learning quiz game where your students can have friendly competition within your class by logging into cahoot with your class code for the quiz. If teachers run out of time to create their own quizzes Kahoot offers a wide range of quizzes from other creators.

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Outlook is a fabulous communication tool as an email!

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Microsoft Outlook Personal Email and Calendar | Microsoft 365

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Download free Microsoft Outlook email and calendar, plus Office Online apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Sign in to access your Outlook email account.

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Teams is another online platform for communication throughout the whole school. Teams offers teachers to create certain chats which is beneficial for subject areas of HPE to all communicate without the whole school seeing their message.

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Get help with your questions about Microsoft Teams from our how-to articles, tutorials, and support content.

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Excel is fantastic program for subject areas like mathematics, sciences and even HPE as on excel you can create spreadsheets of data and collect them into charts, diagrams that display your findings beautifully and easy to read.

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Microsoft Excel with a Microsoft 365 subscription is the latest version of Excel. Previous versions include Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2010, Excel 2007, and Excel 2003.

iTunes, iPhone, and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google Inc.

1. Some Excel charts and graphics require a Microsoft 365 subscription.
2. The Share page in Excel, with the Invite people option selected. 3. Money in Excel is only available in the United States and can connect to most major financial institutions. 4. Availability of mobile apps varies by country/region.

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Download Excel | Create Excel Spreadsheets | Buy Excel

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Microsoft Excel with a Microsoft 365 subscription is the latest version of Excel. Previous versions include Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2010, Excel 2007, and Excel 2003. iTunes, iPhone, and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google Inc.

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OneNote is a popular note taking tool which teachers can section off notes into their subject areas they teach and add section files in those notebooks again! OneNote saves as you type and is a reliable program to have.

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Gather your thoughts, then make them even better

Revise your notes with type, highlighting, or ink annotations. With OneNote across all your devices, you'll never miss a flash of inspiration.

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Microsoft OneNote Digital Note Taking App | Microsoft 365

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Microsoft OneNote has your digital notebook needs covered. With OneNote 2016 we've made our notebook organizer tools even stronger and collaboration easier.

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Word Documents has been very handy in my studies as a pre-service teacher and will continue to be throughout my teaching career. Word can be a quick note writing service or typing out whole reports or assessments with loads of functions!

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Buy Word or Try Microsoft Word Free | Microsoft Word

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Download Microsoft Word or try Microsoft Word, free with Microsoft 365. Publish Word docs as web pages, write a resume, and co-edit Word documents.

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Powerpoint is a very common desktop program already in education today as teachers can create their own powerpoint slides for any subject area with load of functions like adding tables, different fonts, images and video, links etc.

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Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Presentation Software | Microsoft 365

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Microsoft PowerPoint empowers you to create clean slideshow presentations and intricate pitch decks and gives you a powerful presentation maker to tell your story.

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ACARA- focuses off whole-school curriculum, assessments and reporting. It is developed national curriculum, administration of national assessments and reporting of educational outcomes.

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The Version of the Australian Curriculum website has ACARA and CSIRO developed together! This overall website provides prints/ downloads that can be resources for the Australian Curriculum

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The Direct General (Jim Watterson) shows the importance of ensuring all teachers have a clear understanding of ethical principles, values and standards of conduct that are applied in our daily work lives in department of Queensland.

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The Queensland Code of Ethics is short but powerful PDF file which displays the Queensland teachers key principles of integrity, dignity, responsibility, respect, justice and care.

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Scootle is a general platform for teachers to have access to handy digital learning items. Scootle provides a wide range of contributors which aligns with the Australian Curriculum core areas.

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Scootle provides Australian teachers with access to quality-assured digital learning resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

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Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership

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Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership

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Aitsl- is an institute designed by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments to help support and promote excellence in the profession of teaching and school leadership. Aitsl is a great website to read through standards whether you are a pre-service teacher, teacher or principal etc.