CORE PRINCIPLES

• Professional Relationships

• Professional Knowledge

• Professional Practice

STANDARDS FOR ENTRY TO THE REGISTER
for Professional Practice

1. Planning & Teaching

2. Feedback & Reporting

3. Learning Environment

2. Professional Practice

1. Planning & Teaching  (page 10)

Teachers plan and implement teaching strategies for successful learning experiences

• Employ a range of teaching and learning resources and strategies to actively engage all learners and address their interests, learning needs and learning preferences

• Demonstrate and ability to plan experiences for in-depth learning and to cater for individuals and groups of learners

• Recognise a learner’s specific learning needs and seek specialised support

• Demonstrate an ability to plan and manage inquiry-based learning

• Establish challenging and achievable learning goals within relevant curriculum frameworks

• Demonstrate skills in negotiating and scaffolding learning experiences to support learners to be successful

• Employ a range of strategies that help develop learners’ personal and group identity

• Display an understanding of the importance of fostering learners’ creativity and optimism in shaping the future for themselves

• Demonstrate an ability to gather, analyse and use relevant strategies, tools and criteria to evaluate learner progress and plan teaching and learning

2. Feedback & Reporting  (page 11)

Teachers assess and report learning outcomes

• Negotiate, use and reflect on a range of assessment strategies, tools and criteria to evaluate learner progress and plan teaching and learning

• Gather evidence of learning in a variety of ways, monitor progress and maintain accurate records

• Demonstrate a capacity to provide meaningful, respectful, explicit and timely feedback to learners and parent/caregivers

• Report on progress to learners and parent/caregivers, using a range of communication and reporting strategies, both formal and informal

3. Learning Environment  (page 12)

Teachers create a safe, challenging and supportive learning environment

• Demonstrate an ability to establish clear expectations for learners, their behaviour and interactions within the learning environment, consistent with broader behaviour management policies

• Establish enriching and safe learning environments that support and challenge learners, using a range of flexible learning styles, materials, resources and physical space

• Demonstrate skills in meeting expectations for learner wellbeing, and work within legislative and other broader requirements

• Utilise a variety of strategies to provide positive, challenging and inclusive learning environments that enable learners to fully participate in their learning

• Establish learning environments where diversity is valued and individual differences are respected

• Create supportive environments in which learners can respectfully express their views

• Create inclusive learning environments in which learners are supported to develop personal identity, a positive self-image, self-esteem and a positive understanding of others