Effective Teaching
- Understand how effective teaching affects instructional improvement (2.1.01).
- Apply key practices that support effective teaching and positive behaviour interventions and strategies (2.1.01).
- Communicate a vision of instructional and behavioural improvement centred on effective teaching (2.1.01).
- Understand what constitutes effective teaching and positive behaviour interventions and supports (2.1.02).
- Apply cycles of practice that support effective teaching implementation (2.1.02).
- Communicate to leaders and teaching team what constitutes effective teaching and cycles of practice that support implementation efforts (2.1.02).
- Review observation and student mastery data to determine need for modelling, coaching and feedback (2.2.06).
- Evaluate need for practice based on observation data and communicate to teachers. (2.3.05).
- Review observation and student mastery data to determine need for reflective practices, structured feedback and peer review (2.3.06).
- Understand how to implement practices that promote a culture of professional learning (2.1.03).
- Communicate importance of professional learning through practices that recognise efforts of leaders and teaching team to improve (2.1.03).
- Plan training and coaching sessions to ensure all the school team is supported to deliver effective teaching (2.2.05).
- Plan effective practices for supporting fidelity of implementation of effective teaching (2.2.06).
- Implement cycles of practice to support fidelity of implementation, including classroom observations, demonstrations, modelling, coaching and feedback on effective teaching (2.2.06).
- Communicate recommendations of external experts to school team to build knowledge, skills and practice (2.3.01).
- Understand how professional peer networks can support shared practice and use of resources (2.3.03).
- Apply principles of peer collegiality through contributing to professional peer networks (2.3.03).
- Communicate with other schools and education networks via professional peer networks (2.3.03).
- Plan a schedule for program practice sessions (2.3.05).
- Implement an effective agenda for practice sessions (2.3.05).
- Review practice session attendance and follow up to increase participation (2.3.05).
- Plan opportunities for reflective practices, structured feedback, peer review and teaching standards (2.3.06).
- Plan professional conversations to clarify how school vision and values link to operational tasks. (2.2.07).
- Understand gaps between personal knowledge, skills and practice and requirements of own role (2.3.01).
- Apply recommendations of external experts to prioritise learning gaps and increase needed skills (2.3.01).
- Implement cycles of practice that lead to personal improvement of teaching team (2.3.06).
- Evaluate personal improvement of teaching team based on growth in teaching standards (2.3.06).
- Evaluate improvement efforts based on student mastery data (2.2.06).
- Learn Effective Teaching Essentials.
- Build Positive High-Expectation School Communities.
- 12 Lessons
Assessment has three stages:
- Test: Knowledge and skills taught in the lessons.
- Appraisal: Practical application in practicing knowledge and skills learned in the lessons.
- Mastery evaluation: Delivery with students of the knowledge and skills learned in the lessons.
Participants are eligible for certification based on attendance and completion of assessment requirements for each module.
- Certificate of Attendance: Complete online training and knowledge and skills tests.
- Certificate of Participation: Pass knowledge and skills video Appraisal.
- Certificate of Achievement: Pass knowledge and skills video Mastery evaluation.