Alberta Education reviewed provincial policies related to teacher preparation, certification, evaluation and professional development, and recognized that the quality of teaching would be enhanced if provincial policies provided an integrated framework to guide, encourage and support teachers' professional growth throughout their careers. The Council on Alberta Teaching Standards advised the Honourable Halvar C. Jonson, Minister of Education, on ideas that should be included in such a framework.

The Integrated Framework position paper has been prepared in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, and is 242 KB in size.