Effective Teaching
- Understand components of effective teaching resources (such as the Teacher’s Guide) that align with core programs (3.1.04).
- Understand how to group students and maximise instructional time to manage classroom activities (3.4.02).
- Demonstrate effective use of instructional time by managing classroom (3.4.02).
- Apply classroom practices across all activities by setting clear behavioural expectations and facilitating routines, orderly transitions, and bell to bell teaching (3.4.02).
- Plan instructional day around appropriate instructional programs (3.1.10).
- Understand basic effective teaching techniques and practices in academics and behaviour (3.2.01).
- Understand range of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies that support student engagement in small and large group instruction (3.1.05).
- Demonstrate a range of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to support student engagement in small and large group instruction (3.1.05).
- Plan improvement based on feedback to support student understanding, participation, engagement and achievement during small and whole group instruction (3.1.12).
- Implement all parts of direct and explicit instruction lessons (3.2.07).
- Implement direct and explicit instruction lessons with fidelity (3.2.08).
- Implement effective teaching techniques to develop problem solving skills in students (3.1.10).
- Understand basic direct instruction techniques and why they are used (3.1.03).
- Understand basic explicit instruction techniques and why they are used (3.1.03).
- Demonstrate ability to teach lessons using direct and explicit instruction teaching techniques (3.2.01).
- Understand purpose of providing timely and appropriate feedback to students about their learning and behaviour (3.6.02).
- Demonstrate remedies and re-testing as indicated in direct instruction following mastery tests and/or student checkouts and use correction procedure when students make errors (3.6.01).
- Demonstrate appropriate corrective feedback and effective teaching procedures for diagnosis and remediation of academic and behavioural errors (corrective actions when correcting errors) (3.6.02).
- Communicate corrective feedback to students during instruction and independent learning (3.6.02).
- Demonstrate direct and explicit instruction concepts in developing independent work that aligns to program being taught (3.1.04).
- Plan group instruction based on mastery data and program guidelines (3.2.08).
- Understand how to use mastery test data to assess student learning (3.6.01).
- Demonstrate remedies and re-testing as indicated in direct instruction following mastery tests and/or student checkouts and use correction procedure when students make errors (3.6.01).
- Plan instructional time to implement mastery tests as indicated in the program (3.6.06).
- Implement in-program and out of program assessments to evaluate student mastery levels (3.6.06).
- Review mastery test data to determine individual and group mastery (3.6.06).
- Communicate to colleagues and classroom visitors basic direct and explicit instruction techniques and uses (3.1.03).
- Communicate with school leaders, colleagues and parents appropriate use of direct and explicit instruction techniques (3.2.01).
- Communicate any concerns with student mastery by referring to mastery test data (3.6.01).
- Understand how parents can apply practices in the home that maximise their children’s learning opportunities (3.8.01).
- Apply family engagement practices in the community with parents to build relationship between parent and school (3.8.01).
- Demonstrate student learning and positive behaviour to parents through positive postcards, work samples and technology (3.8.01).
- Communicate student progress and home routines for parents to use to improve children’s learning readiness (3.8.01).
- Demonstrate awareness of local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and languages in lessons and discussions with community members (3.8.02).
- Communicate clearly to convey warmth, honesty, and interest in student’s development (3.8.04).
- Learn Effective Teaching Essentials.
- 12 Lessons
Assessment has one stage:
- Test: Knowledge and skills taught in the lessons.
Participants are eligible for certification based on attendance and completion of assessment requirements for each module.
- Certificate of Attendance: Complete online training and knowledge and skills tests.