Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Target: To establish Professional Learning Communities, for teachers to collaborate in a non-threatening way sharing /identifying beliefs and values, to
review school wide decisions and actions in and around teaching and learning practices.
Result Statement (s): Teachers will be encouraged to participate in Professional Learning Groups (PLG) which would focus on writing strategies as
well as classroom management techniques and teaching strategies.
End Goal: To have a consistent clearly articulated understanding of values and beliefs that underpin our school decisions and actions in regards to
teaching and learning.
Changes in Staff Changing Monitoring Progress Collaborating and Resources, School Evaluation of Success/
Learning Instruction: with Support: and Reporting to Families
Behaviour: What will What will teachers do Timelines and How will we use the Board: and
staf to change their Adjustments: information we get from What else can we do Community:
do to reach the learning behaviours How will we measure monitoring to
identified and attain the result? progress determine NEXT STEPS? Do we
result? How will we towards the changes in target attainment? How need to
know learning behaviour and far keep this target in next
whether staf are teaching that we want? along are we on this year's
How
Staf will take part in Teachers will use Progress toward goals: Teachers working Reporting to Families:
A "Writing Night"-parents
Professional Professional Learning Teachers will be involved toward the writing goal, Monthly newsletter
working with their children
Development sessions as Groups to discuss in documented developing a common and opportunities for snippet with ideas for
part of a PLG. concerns around Professional Learning moderation and discussion and feedback on supporting writing
writing, classroom Groups that deal with standard assessment ways to support their child’s (teachers to develop)
learning at home. (St Leonards
practice and writing strategies, across a group of cluster
Term 2)
Staf will engage in management. behaviours and schools which Evaluation of success in
readings and discussions Revisit teaching as processes. will provide much School provide support for relation to student
on practice (centred Inquiry model as part of needed teachers to allow for achievement and staf
around writing) with NZC. PLG meetings with support for children and common planning/ programmes will be
assessment moderating time
reflections on own reflective discussion of teachers teaching (tied determined by end of
and opportunities for
practice / beliefs and Set individual teaching change over time in into National Standards observations and reflective Term 3.
values (reflective goals as part of practice and student expectations) feedback.
journal) appraisal process linked achievement (in relation
to writing and PLG to changes in practice or PLG discussions on Evaluation of success of
discussions. skill progressions) and observations and in staf PD will be
with discussion linked to relation to goals. determined by staf
Take part in Professional National Standards. survey, appraisal books
Learning Group and reflective journal
observations and Goals and steps towards Shared readings on with a self assessment
feedback sessions. it logged and monitored Literacy teaching and and review.
(independently and as efective practice.
Keep reflective journal. part of Professional
learning Groups
observations). School development plan
and progressions of
Regular assessments of learning completed as
writing utilising common part of NZC.
moderated standards
with reflection on
practice and success of
teaching/learning
programmes identifying
changes in students
learning and
achievement.