Mentoring our Colleagues

Standards, accreditation and other scary words

Me

• Instructional Coach

• Head of Department

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Model high-level teaching knowledge and skills and work

with colleagues to use current ICT to improve their teaching practice

and make content relevant and meaningful.

2.6.3

AITSLThe AITSL website

is a very handy resource to use as

many of the standards have “Illustrations of

practice” to help you plan how you might address a

standard.

The Standards

How well do you know them?

• Know students and how they learn

• Know the content and how to teach it

• Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning

• Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments

• Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning

• Engage in professional learning

• Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community

KNOWLEDGE

PRACTICE

ENGAGEMENT

• Graduate

• Proficient (ISTAA / BOSTES)

• Experienced Teacher (ISTAA)

• Highly Accomplished (BOSTES)

• Professional Excellence (ISTAA)

• Lead (BOSTES)

The Final Standard?

“Know the standards and how to use them”

Graduate

Proficient

Highly Accomplished

It’s about the verbs

Graduate

demonstrate

organise

use

understand

plan

describe

Proficient

identify

design

establish

implement participate

use

Experienced Teacher

implement

design

evaluate

Highly Accomplished

support colleagues

develop

model

evaluate

Instructional Coaching

A Mentoring Model

“I am now at the stage of my career where I would like to help other teachers

grow and progress further in their journey.”

“I feel that I have developed effective organizational and interpersonal skills

that have … helped me develop a mutual trust and respect with all those that I have worked with. I believe that I

am sensitive to the needs of those around me and respected for my

discreteness… I am able to comfortably liaise with a broad range of staff and

members of the community.”

“I have recently seen a colleague go through the accreditation process and know that those who will do so in the future will appreciate someone who

listens, can help set and achieve goals and know that it is a shared journey

where each of the players learns from the other.”

Partnership approach• Choice

• Voice

• Dialogue

• Equality

• Reciprocity

• Reflection

• Praxis

What an IC does

• Professional Learning Hub

• Mentoring and observations

• Supporting those undergoing accreditation

PL Hub

• Workshops

• Discussions / sharing best practice

• Online learning modules

• Reading time - research

Coaching through Observations

• Pre-meeting - finding a goal

• Lesson plan

• Observation with or without video

• Debrief meeting and moving forward

Supporting NST or ET• Meetings between NST & coach / mentor

• Lesson observations

• Gathering evidence

• Annotations, references & testimonials

• Review by IC team

• Submission