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Find your certifying authority

Find your certifying authority, teachers from the following systems are encouraged to contact their employers for more information, Find your certifying authority You are currently: Home Teach Understand certification and HALT status Find your certifying authority Scroll screen to next content area Certifying, certification, you should contact your relevant certifying authority from the table above

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Deep questioning to support research

The teacher supports the students to investigate the differences between meiosis and mitosis using a range of resources, including an animation and structured independent online research. The teacher uses deep questioning and targeted feedback to develop students' understanding of the content. The students demonstrate their understanding by creating their own instructional diagrams. Students who are having trouble with the content are guided to undertake further research, John Monash Science School is the first school of its kind in Victoria and one of only three such specialist science providers in Australia. Opening for the first time in 2010 the facilities and infrastructure are multi-storey and based on a ‘learning commons’ design to facilitate the variety of flexible teaching and learning approaches characteristic of the school. JMSS has formed strong partnerships with researchers and academics in a broad mix of scientific fields at Monash University. JMSS

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Literacy and numeracy strategies

In a literacy and numeracy lesson, a graduate teacher focuses on rhyming, syllabification and pre-literacy skills. The teacher has developed a teaching sequence that integrates both literacy and numeracy strategies, with resources and activities carefully chosen to relate to the rural and farming environment familiar to students. The teacher finds this an effective way to engage her students, of literacy and numeracy approaches embedded in such programs as 'First Steps', Plan adopts an integrated curriculum approach that ensures there is also a strong focus on numeracy

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Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework

Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework, Performance and development is about creating a culture of teacher quality, feedback and growth for all teachers within all schools. The Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework, that the quality of teaching is the most significant in-school factor affecting student outcomes. There is also strong evidence that better appraisal and feedback leading to targeted development can improve teacher performance. The Framework highlights what is required to build a comprehensive and effective

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Peer-supported learning

The teacher works with a colleague to deliver a lesson on antibiotic resistance, and how it spreads, in an elective subject on pharmaceutical science. The students use ICT to engage in research and then present their findings to the class. The students are encouraged to take ownership of their learning and to draw on each other's understanding, John Monash Science School is the first school of its kind in Victoria and one of only three such specialist science providers in Australia. Opening for the first time in 2010, the facilities and infrastructure are multi-storey and based on a ‘learning commons’ design to facilitate the variety of flexible teaching and learning approaches characteristic of the school. JMSS has formed strong partnerships with researchers and academics in a broad mix of scientific fields at Monash University. JMSS

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Student-led science inquiry

A Year 8 science teacher at St Mary's College explains how she utilises student-led inquiry to help students develop key scientific concepts and skills. She works closely with students to help them identify an area of personal interest and to develop a method for their scientific investigation. Drawing on previous learning, and with support from their teacher, the students independently undertake their investigation and prepare a presentation of their findings for a university science fair, St Mary’s College in Hobart was founded in 1868 and provides a K-12 education for girls (and K-2 for boys). The college has implemented the Australian Curriculum for science from Foundation to Year 10 and offers a wide variety of science subjects at the senior years including biology, chemistry and earth sciences. The college has established a Women in Science Centre and participates in a range of events including the University of Tasmania Science Fair to increase opportunities for students

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Education Endowment Foundation diagram - long description

Education Endowment Foundation diagram - long description, as the approach is used for the first time Plan for sustaining and scaling an intervention from the outset, Foundation diagram - long description You are currently: Home Research & evidence Spotlights Informing teaching: navigating and translating education best practice Education Endowment Foundation diagram - long description> The Education Endowment Foundation (2018) has developed, a leadership implementation plan, judge the readiness of the school to deliver that plan, then prepare sta f

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Grading using rubrics

A pre-service teacher at an Alice Springs primary school seeks assistance from her supervising teacher at the conclusion of a unit of work in her final teaching round. In using a pre-determined assessment rubric to make judgements about her students' achievements, she has found that students may be achieving at different levels in the same task, and needs advice about how to allocate a final overall grade. Her decision to request an assessment moderation is an indication of the importance she, Ross Park is the oldest government primary school in Alice Springs. It has almost 400 students of which 25 per cent are Indigenous. At the school, a pre-service teacher from Charles Darwin University is in her final round of teaching practice. The teacher has taught the class a science inquiry unit on how environmental changes may affect the growth of flower seedlings. At the conclusion of the unit, students have written a report, based on which the pre-service teacher is making a summative

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Inclusive education fact sheet for teachers

Inclusive education fact sheet for teachers, Leadership Limited Printfriendly  Inclusive education fact sheet for teachers This fact sheet offers tips for early career teachers to engage with policies and processes to address Teacher Standard 1.6: Strategies to support full participation of students, 1 Build relationships Understand the protocols for contacting families, and their family. Contact the service providers and allied health professionals who

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Final Report – Evaluation of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

Final Report – Evaluation of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, a three-year evaluation, from 2013 to 2015, of the implementation of the Standards. This report presents the overall findings from the Evaluation of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (The Standards) are a public statement of what constitutes teacher quality. They provide a framework that clarifies the knowledge, practice, towards the Standards begins to form and knowledge about the Standards begins to develop, then, use

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