Teaching and teacher education are easy targets when it comes to showing cause for falling levels of student learning achievement in schools across a number of nations worldwide. Australia is a case in point, where the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment report on educational performance from 72 countries worldwide shows that the learning attainment scores of Australian 15 year olds in mathematics, science, and reading is slipping in comparison to the test scores of young people in countries such as Japan, Canada, and New Zealand. The recently released 2016 National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy data also show a plateauing of results in literacy and numeracy by Australian students since the introduction of the annual test in 2008. While one might argue against these types of measures of student achievement on a number of fronts, they nonetheless carry high stakes for teacher practice and teacher education, as evinced through wide coverage and often strident debate in academic publications, political and policy commentaries, and social and mass media.