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Engaging parents/carers

The teacher outlines the importance of engaging for parents/carers in her school and demonstrates how this can be achieved responsively and respectfully. In a formally scheduled parent/carer interview, she reports clearly and accurately about a student’s progress and uses work samples to demonstrate the student’s development within her teaching program. Informal interactions with parents/carers who are visiting the class regularly, or who are involved in teaching activities, have developed, Ross Park is the oldest government primary school in Alice Springs. It has almost 400 students of which 25 per cent are Indigenous. The teacher has been at the school for four years. She currently teaches a Transition/year 1 class. She recognizes the importance of parent/carer engagement due to the somewhat transient nature of Alice Springs’ and thus the school’s population. Previously she has found it challenging to engage with parents/carers, and community members, but this year she has

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/engaging-parents-carers-illustration-of-practice

Guided reading

A graduate teacher uses guided reading as a strategy for differentiating teaching to target the learning needs of year 5 students across a range of abilities. At the beginning of the lesson, the teacher provides clear instructions to each of the working/ability groups that she has created based on previously undertaken formative assessments. The literacy tasks set for each group are designed to cater for a range of specific but common learning needs. Four of the five groups are instructed, O’Connor Primary School is located in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, 600km east of Perth. The students in this year 5 class have a diverse range of literacy and numeracy learning needs. Reading is a focus across the school and additional resources are allocated to curriculum support and appropriate professional development to strengthen the emphasis on reading. All teachers in the school have implemented a Literacy Block with a focus on specific strategies designed to improve the reading skills of all

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Problem solving in block corner

The teacher joins a group of children in a block construction area. She supports a child to plan how to build his desired replica of the MCG and to select his co-workers. She facilitates entry to the 'building site' by other children, modelling and discussing negotiation and collaboration, of student progress, which she reviews regularly, communicates to families and uses as a basis for her forward planning, This community kindergarten provides sessional learning programs for three- and four-year old children in a metropolitan setting. The kindergarten is located within the grounds of a primary school. The teacher plans and implements learning experiences based on her deep theoretical understanding of how young children learn and her detailed knowledge of each child’s development, skills and interests. She connects her cognitive goals - around sustainability, for example - to students’ interests

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Technological innovations in initial teacher education

and that such collaboration underpins further development and expansion across ITE programs. Future directions, ). Figure 1. Modes of VR based on immersion (adapted from Huang et al., 2021). Non-immersive VR, ) and fully-immersive VR (simCave) simulations (see Figure 1). Collectively, they are described, the ability to express feelings “through facial expression, body positions, and distracted behaviour, -simulation platform that provides pre-service teachers with ‘automated’ formative feedback during

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Exercising sound judgement

A teacher in a position of responsibility discusses with a colleague the context and evidence relating to an item of written assessment that the teacher contends does not conform to what the student is able to achieve. The co-ordinator carefully leads her colleague through an examination of the evidence. The methodical and sound approach that she exhibits is required in order to arrive at an understanding that is informed and that will allow her to articulate to the relevant parties a fair, Dominic College is a Catholic, kindergarten to year 10, co-educational, independent school in Hobart. Within the school, teachers may have roles of responsibility at either one or both campuses. This teacher's responsibilities include curriculum co-ordination at years 7–10, and being Director of Teaching & Learning across K–10. In her role as curriculum co-ordinator, the teacher has a duty to respond fairly to parent/carer queries relating to the school's assessment practices. She meets

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Support for families

Support for families

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Modelling scientific thinking

The Science Horizon program at Newton Moore Senior High School aims to provide a diverse range of activities outside the classroom to encourage and foster students' passion for science. Dolphin observations, mangrove excursions and water quality testing are a sample of activities undertaken. An understanding of scientific method and technique is constantly reinforced in practical classes to complement the scientific research undertaken outside the classroom and to provide encouragement, Newton Moore Senior High School is located in Bunbury in Western Australia and has approximately 620 students. The school has a strong commitment to innovation through the development of future-focused learning programs, and is a Pathfinder School within Microsoft's Partners in Learning program. The strong motivation behind all decisions is the school’s unwavering commitment to its students, parents, teachers and community to prepare students for the 21st century by embracing technology. Strong

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Animal movement

A teacher carefully builds student understanding and engagement in a lesson to prep students. She wants them to understand that the way an object moves is dependent on a variety of factors. After discussing how students travel to school, she utilises the conclusions of this discussion to encourage students to enact how different animals walk and move. She then uses role-play to simulate the effects of waste and pollution on the movements of seals, while simultaneously reinforcing science, Coolbinia Primary School is located in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, and caters for students from prep to year 7. Within the primary school, there are approximately 270 students. There are 118 students within the kindergarten and prep classes. Fourteen per cent of the students in the school have a language background other than English. There are even numbers of boys and girls enrolled. The teacher's prep class has 23 students

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Analysing data to improve student learning

A teacher works with three colleagues to analyse samples of her student’s work and assessment tasks. The teachers identify the strengths and areas for improvement in writing and set learning foci and instructional teaching strategies for future learning and teaching. The collegiate activity is designed to strengthen teaching and learning approaches across the entire year level. The clip also includes extracts from a lesson, The school is located west of Melbourne in a semi-rural suburban area. It has many students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds. Staff members regularly work together in professional learning teams to analyse and review student learning needs and to support one another to develop strategies to support student learning

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Evaluating teaching and learning

Effective teaching and learning in this teacher’s classroom is based on a deep knowledge of her students’ intellectual development and characteristics. This is evident in her approach to the planning of lessons, the strategies she uses to engage students with the content of the curriculum area, and in her responses to students’ individual learning needs. In the clip, which focuses on students learning about number and place value in Mathematics, the teacher provides students with a diverse, Ross Park is the oldest government primary school in Alice Springs. The teacher has been at the school for four years. She currently teaches a Transition/year 1 class. Her longer term planning to meet the individual needs of her students has led her to introduce a problem solving session at the beginning of most of her lessons. She has taken this approach because of the diversity of ability levels in her composite class; also because many of her students understand formulas or principles

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/evaluating-teaching-and-learning-illustration-of-practice
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