professional knowledge in the australian graduate standards and core pedagogical areas policy initiatives involved improving initial teacher education and professional development developing teaching standards or competence framework and linking them to teacher appraisal introducing career stages for teachers and so on oecd ij increasingly more research studies look at the quality features of teacher education in highperforming systems darlinghammond wei and andree p hammerness and klette j darlinghammond darlinghammond etal teaching standards have also been examined and compared toledo revai and guerriero kleinhenz and ingvarson and the evidence on their impact on teacher education extends to a growing number of localised contexts chung and kim h tummons i page i j kriewaldt i ceulemans simons and struyf i j