Network of Education Associations of Tasmania 

November 14 2013

Agenda

Connecting policy platforms to teacher and principal activity

New work from AITSL

Communication networks

What is the Standard?

• The Standard is a public statement which sets out what Principals are expected to know, understand and do.

• It is represented as an integrated model.

• The Standard aims to:

• define the role and unify the profession nationally

• describe professional practice in a common language

• make explicit the role of quality school leadership in raising standards for the 21st century

Vision and

values

Knowledge and

understanding

Personal qualities,

social and interpersonal

skills

Professionalpractices

Leading teaching and learning

Developing self and others

Leading improvement, innovation and change

Leading the management of the school

Engaging and working with the community

High quality learning, teaching

and schooling

The standard for principals : The role in action

Leadership requirements

Successful learners, confident creative

individuals and active informed citizens*

Context: School, sector, community: socio-economic, geographic: and education

systems at local, regional, national and global levels

Clearinghouse

• Developed to support the knowledge and skills of emerging, aspiring, practicing and experienced school leaders

• Includes two broad areas: • research repository • community resources database

Clearinghouse

• recently upgraded• advanced searching and

browsing• links from relevant research to

the APSP• monthly Reading Lists• social media sharing

clearinghouse.aitsl.edu.au

360o Reflection Tool

www.aitsl.edu.au/360

The 360o Reflection Tool will provide principals opportunity to:• reflect on their leadership capacity• monitor change in their leadership behaviour and actions• learn more about their strengths• better understand and explore opportunities for improvement• gather critical feedback on their performance• use that feedback to reflect on their leadership and develop a leadership

action plan• use the feedback as one element of their professional appraisal• plan professional learning and development opportunities for

themselves.

Teaching quality is the most significant in-school factor affecting student outcomes

Students with a highly effective teacher learn twice as much as students with a less effective teacher

B Jensen, Better teacher appraisal and feedback, Grattan Institute, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuKceiCvMEg

A week in the life of a teacher

Lyndall is a primary school teacher working in the outer suburbs of

Hobart. She has been a teacher for 7 years and has a range of leadership

responsibilities.

Preparation and Selection

Lyndall is preparing for a pre service teacher based in her classroom for six weeks as part of their practicum placement. This is a new experience

for Lyndall and she is not familiar with the Graduate career stage of

the Standards.

preparing to supervise a preservice teacher

mapped to the Australian Professional

Standards for Teachers

free and open to any education professional

complete anytime, anywhere

Professional Learning

four modules, accessed in any order

content is accessed through enquiry based questions

film and audio resources support learning

forums embedded to share learning

Induction and Personalised Support

Lyndall is a mentor to a provisionally registered teacher in her school. The

teacher is in their second year of teaching and is working towards full

registration

Teachers situate themselves in the Standards Formative tool used by teachers considering

Certification Professional Learning Planner

Self Assessment Tool (SAT)

SAT Results

supports the provisionally registered teacher to self identify areas for development required to meet the Proficient Career Stage

a professional learning planner to support teacher’s meet performance and development goals based on the Standards and aligned to school goals

bring the standards to life

situate teachers within the

Standards

a resource to support professional learning

basis for discussion and reflection

Illustrations of Practice

Learning and Development

Lyndall has a role to play in coordinating the professional

learning program for her team. She has been made aware via her Twitter

feed of resources to support implementing the Standards on the

AITSL website.

Resources

Performance Management and Feedback

Lyndall is working with the leadership team implementing the

performance management framework within the school.

Having found the resources page on the AITSL website she is keen to

further explore what material is available.

Performance and Development Framework

Appraisal, feedback and professional

learning are powerful drivers of

improvement

When done well teachers view appraisal

and feedback positively and see it as

fair and helpful

BUT ...

63% of teachers believe that appraisals are done purely to meet administrative requirements

61% of teachers believe that the review of teachers’ work has little impact on classroom teaching

OECD Reviews of evaluation and assessment in education: Australia, 2009

99.8% of teachers had a satisfactory performance review, yet principals estimated 30% were underperformers

Grattan Institute (Better Teacher Appraisal and Feedback): Australia, 2011

Recognition Reward and Career Growth

Lyndall is continually improving and developing professionally and

is looking towards career progression. She is thinking about pursuing certification at the Highly

Accomplished or Lead career stage.

recognise and promote quality teaching

opportunity for teachers to reflect on practice

reliable indication of quality teaching used to identify,

recognise and/or reward Highly Accomplished and Lead teachers

Certification

Certification Evidence

Provides detailed examples

Self Assessment Tool

Where am I within the teacher Standards?

What evidence can I use for Certification?

What’s new at AITSL

Upcoming resources

Teacher Toolkit

One place to locate all practical and interactive resources supporting teacher quality

Teacher Feature Great Teaching Ideas

Student Voice

Three places for teachers to join education conversations and share ideas

Observation Framework

Based on the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

An important tool for ensuring an effective performance and development culture within schools

Part of the Certification process

Teacher Standards App

The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers available on mobiles and tablets

A resource to collect and annotate evidence aligned to the Standards

Learning Frontiers

A newly launched project focussing on student engagement in learning

Developing professional practices to support the successful delivery of the Australian Curriculum in an increasingly digital and globalised environment

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