1. SACE Leadership and Quality Learning Forums Australian Professional Standards for Teachers: building professional capacities in educational assessment Margery Evans Chief Executive Officer Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership

2. Agenda  Focus on teacher quality  Australian Professional Standards for Teachers  Performance and Development Framework  Professional Learning Charter  The Principal Standards  The Teacher Standards & Assessment

3. Focus on teacher quality

4.  Teaching quality is the most significant in-school factor affecting student outcomes J Hattie, Teachers make a difference 2003, OECD 2005  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

5.  Appraisal, feedback and professional learning are powerful drivers of improvement OECD 2009

8. Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

9.  a public statement of what constitutes teacher quality  what teachers are expected to know and do at the four career stages

10.  What is expected of me ~ Good at what?  How good is good ? = Standards  Who decides?  How do I get better?  How did I go? Back

11. Australian Teacher Performance And Development Framework

12.  Reviewed the literature  Mapped existing practice  Commissioned ‘think pieces’  Sought advice from practitioners and national and international experts

14. Essential elements 1.Documented, regularly reviewed, measurable goals agreed with principal or delegate 2.Support in achieving goals including access to professional learning

15. 3.Multiple sources of evidence including data on  student outcomes  classroom observation  teacher collaboration 4.Regular feedback including a formal annual review with written and verbal feedback

16. Australian Charter for the Professional Learning of Teachers and School Leaders

17. Professional Learning Charter

18.  Relevant  Collaborative  Future focussed

19. Leaders impact on teacher quality = impact on student outcomes

20.  The job of leaders is to improve the performance of teachers so they can improve the performance of students  Great leaders have high expectations of themselves and their teachers as well as their students

21. The Principal Standard

22.  public statement of what Principals are expected to know, understand and do  an integrated model  define the role in common language  unifies the profession nationally

23. The Standards and Assessment

26.  assessment is a key element of a teachers professional practice  important to continually develop practice around student assessment

27. Across career stages teachers should:  develop a wide range of assessment strategies  select effective feedback techniques to progress student learning  use assessment data to evaluate learning, modify teaching and identify interventions required