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Committee on Professional Development of Teachers and Principals

Professional Standards for Teachers of Background

Hong Kong
The teaching profession is a learning profession. Given the
complexity of the teaching profession, active lifelong learning is
necessary for developing all members of the teaching profession
into effective enablers of students’ learning and growth.

Committee on Professional Development of Teachers and
Principals (COTAP) aims to build a quality teaching profession in
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pursuit of continuous improvement and excellence. T-standard
has been developed as one of the eight areas of focuses under
T-excel@hk, an overarching project launched in 2015.

Development

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The T-standard , which comprises the Professional Standards for
Teachers of Hong Kong (PST) and the Professional Standards for
Principals of Hong Kong (PSP), is developed with the teaching
profession for the growth of the profession. It aims to provide a
useful reference for its teacher preparation, continuing professional
T development and school leadership development.

Comments on the two sets of draft Standards were collected from
frontline teachers, school leaders and teacher education
universities through a pilot study and focus group discussions
conducted from February to November 2017. Feedback from
schools and the public sector were also collected in July 2018
Nurture Learners Today and Leaders Tomorrow before the official launch of the Standards as references for the
teaching profession and stakeholders.