Libraries

1. Libraries “I could walk in without a dollar to my name and yet fail to leave empty-handed.” Fatima Measham

2. It is a time of change Demystifying the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

3. Get Excited

4. Know the document www.schools.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/news/greatteaching/gtil_blueprint.pdf

5. www.nswteachers.nsw.edu.au Your information

6. Unpacking the Standards

7. What are the Standards? The Standards are not aspirational You need to be already demonstrating professional capability at the career stage. Career stage descriptors representing increasing levels of knowledge, practice and professional engagement content.infotrustllc.com

8. The Standards and their Standard Descriptors represent an analysis of effective, contemporary practice by teachers throughout Australia. The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers are a public statement of what constitutes teacher quality. They present a common understanding and language for discourse between teachers, teacher educators, teacher organisations, professional associations and the public.

9. CAREER STAGES Highly Accomplished Proficient Lead Graduate Teachers Returning after absence of 5 years or teaching for the first time in NSW All Teaching Staff There is no link to promotion levels with the exception of a proposal that all principals and leaders of professional learning in the future (?) should be at Highly Accomplished or Lead levels.

10. manifestedharmony.com

11. 7 Standards 1. Know students and how they learn 2. Know the content and how to teach it 3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning www.teachhub.com 4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments 5. Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning 6. Engage in professional learning 7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community

12. Maintenance 100 hours of Professional Learning over 5 years 50 hours of teacher identified raywhitebrunswick.com.au 50 hours of registered professional learning Minimum 25 hours must be sourced by providers from outside the school Registered Professional Learning Professional teaching associations Private/commercial Providers

13. Let’s Play Standard 1 Item No. Career Stage (Proficient) 1.1.2 Use teaching strategies based on knowledge of students’ physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics to improve student learning What is the VERB? What evidence do you have that demonstrates that you meet this standard?

14. 3.3.4 Work with colleagues to review, modify and expand their repetoire of teaching strategies to enable students to use knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking 3.3.2 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking. 4.2.4 Initiate strategies and lead colleagues to implement effective classroom management and promote student responsibility for learning 4.2.2 Establish and maintain orderly and workable routines to create an environment where time is spent on learning tasks 5.2.2 Provide timely, effective and appropriate feedback to students about their achievement relative to their learning goals. 5.2.4 Model exemplary practice and initiate programs to support colleagues in applying a range of timely, effective and appropriate feedback strategies

16. Resources Professional Teaching Associations BoSTES Twitter #libchat #edchat #librarians #TLchat AITSL Professional Networks @tasriffic

17. www.aitsl.edu.au/australian-professional-standards-for-teachers/my-standards-applicationwww.aitsl.edu.au/australian-professional-standards-for-teachers/my-standards-application