The Powerful Knowledge Project
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There is considerable interest in raising the quality of teachers through setting standards and expectations to which all teachers can aspire. This task is complex. The knowledge that teachers need varies across the levels of schooling, with teacher experience, and by subject. The curriculum describes what content must be taught at each year level but there is no parallel “pedagogical” curriculum to indicate what appropriate pedagogical knowledge is necessary to achieve the goals of the curriculum. The Powerful Knowledge study will to map the knowledge and develop benchmark standards of what teachers need to know to teach effectively in Mathematics and English across Levels of Schooling and different Career Stages.
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If you would like to know more about this project, please visit the 'Project Overview' page.
This site will be updated from time to time with more information as the project progresses, and with information about publications as they are produced from the research.
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The Powerful Knowledge Project: Mapping out Standards of Teachers' Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics and English to achieve the goals of the Curriculum is a collaborative project between the University of Tasmania and Massey University. Funding has been provided through an Australian Research Council Discovery Projects grant (DP130103144)