Professional learning
All teachers are members of the wider professional learning community. In a professional learning community a teacher:
- develops shared language
- has more opportunity to be involved in quality conversations and exchange of ideas
- develops the confidence to choose the direction of the professional learning
- receives professional guidance and support from others in the professional learning community.
Professional Learning Communities
This presentation introduces the concept of professional learning communities and shows how successful professional learning communities impact on improved student outcomes. (PowerPoint 217KB)
Models
There are several approaches to developing assessment literacy in your school. These five models provide a theoretical rationale as well as a process for development. They are not mutually exclusive, and schools may wish for example to adopt a whole-school approach, with individual teacher initiatives as a component.
Whole school / Teacher initiative / Subject focused / Lead teacher / Syndicate leader
Planning
These templates are designed to help teachers make a start on professional development
in assessment, for the school as a whole, and in the classroom. You can download them for use as Word documents or as PDFs.
School self-review
Sets out key points for review of assessment in the classroom and school. Allows teachers to identify priorities, and
can be adapted to your school's needs.
School development plan
Provides a format for:
- taking the priorities from the self-review
- establishing goals
- developing an action plan
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