Graduate

  • Circle time

    A pre-service teacher at an Alice Springs primary school uses a class reflection session with students to...
  • Seeking professional learning

    The teacher explains the importance of ongoing professional learning to her development as a teacher. She...
  • Music theory

    In a composite music class at Darwin High School, a pre-service teacher is required to effectively teach...
  • The gingerbread man

    Two lessons, within a wider literacy unit on 'literary recounts', are taught by a pre-service teacher. In...

Proficient

  • Girls writing club

    At a school in remote Western Australia, the teacher has identified a group of Aboriginal girls from years...
  • Dictogloss for EAL/D students

    The teacher guides the class to develop their English language proficiency through a Dictogloss activity...
  • Providing feedback

    In a year 12 English class, the teacher provides individual feedback to students on a recent written English...
  • Palindromic numbers

    In a grade 6 mathematics class a teacher plans for, delivers and reflects on a lesson focusing on Number...

Highly Accomplished

  • Eight Ways of Learning

    The teacher explains the value of the '8 [Aboriginal] Ways of Learning' framework, which includes eight...
  • Improving teacher practice

    The teacher, who is the professional learning co-ordinator at his school, describes how professional learning...
  • OMG Media

    At a Victorian State Conference, two secondary school teachers of Media Studies run a session aimed at introducing...
  • Sharing professional knowledge

    An assistant principal, who is also a teacher at her school, describes the leadership role she has adopted...

Lead

Know students and how they learn

  • Literacy teaching strategies

    A teacher leads a meeting of year 2 teachers in planning explicit literacy teaching strategies to meet the...
  • Eight Ways of Learning

    The teacher explains the value of the '8 [Aboriginal] Ways of Learning' framework, which includes eight...
  • Afterschool club

    The teacher runs an Afterschool Club twice a week which is funded by a local organisation. The club provides...
  • Dreaming stories

    A year 4 classroom teacher uses an Aboriginal dreaming story to engage Indigenous and non-Indigenous students...

Know the content and how to teach it

  • Selecting Indigenous resources

    The teacher discusses how she works with colleagues to teach the Australian Curriculum through Aboriginal...
  • Living in Antarctica

    The teacher has developed a unit on Antarctica for her year 7 Geography students. In this lesson the teacher...
  • Fieldwork techniques

    Here a specialist fieldwork teacher in an environmental education centre demonstrates to his peers how the...
  • The ‘Flipped Classroom Model’

    The teacher describes how her approach to teaching has dramatically changed over time. This is not just...

Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning

  • Evaluating personal teaching

    The teacher outlines the varying ways in which she gets feedback about her teaching. From students she uses...
  • The challenge of the new

    The teacher is a mathematics director in a newly built school in the ACT. He is responsible for supporting...
  • Information literacy

    A teacher librarian works with teachers to plan and review a student research unit on Ancient Rome. Reference...
  • Creating solutions

    The teacher of a year 9 class promotes critical and creative thinking skills while modelling effective teaching...

Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments

  • Lifecycle of silkworms

    At the end of a lesson sequence on the life cycle of silkworms with a composite class of transition and...
  • Differentiating language...

    For this group interview activity, the teacher allocates roles according to different levels of English...
  • Dramatising Macbeth

    The teacher begins her teaching of a literary text by connecting the study to the students' own experiences...
  • Positive learning environments

    At the beginning of the year, the teacher establishes a consistent behaviour management approach, linked...

Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning

  • Teaching film as text

    The teacher uses formative assessment data to adjust her learning and teaching programs. If students have...
  • Providing feedback

    In a year 12 English class, the teacher provides individual feedback to students on a recent written English...
  • Assessment design criteria

    A pre-service teacher at Darwin High School acknowledges that one of her biggest challenges in teaching...
  • Using ICT to teach Languages

    In this Year 12 language class, ICT is used as a diagnostic tool to informally assess students understanding...

Engage in professional learning

  • Improving my practice

    A pre-service teacher at Darwin High School works intensively with her supervisor to improve her teaching...
  • A pre-service journey

    A pre-service teacher at Darwin High school reflects on a number of the processes that she used to make...
  • Improving teacher practice

    The teacher, who is the professional learning co-ordinator at his school, describes how professional learning...
  • Creating wikis

    At Western Cape College’s Weipa Campus, a graduate teacher reflects on her use of a professional learning...

Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community

  • Sharing professional knowledge

    An assistant principal, who is also a teacher at her school, describes the leadership role she has adopted...
  • Engaging parents in...

    As part of a year 9 'Horizon Program' a co-ordinator organises a session where a student will present an...
  • New contexts for learning

    The teacher of Rona Glynn Preschool acknowledges that previously a number of parents/carers had been uncertain...
  • Two-way communication

    A teacher of a composite year 4/5 class is committed to establishing and maintaining effective written communication...