Downloads

• An Even Start - National Tuition Program

Professional learning

Curriculum Planning Professional Learning

• Curriculum Planning Modules

The Curriculum Planning Modules assist schools to:

• Develop whole school curriculum plans and program plans for students that reflect a strong understanding of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards, the Principles of Learning and Teaching P – 12 and the Assessment and Reporting Advice, based on the school profile.
• Develop a whole school curriculum plan that reflects the needs of the school community.
• Develop program plans for students that will best support their learning.

The two modules offer learning activities, professional reading and facilitator’s notes.

Assessment

Assessment for Learning

• Assessment for Learning is a Curriculum Corporation professional learning resource.  It offers a number of assessment tasks with links to annotated work samples across eight Key Learning Areas.  Five Professional Learning modules are offered:
  • Rubrics
  • Effective Feedback
  • Strategic Questioning
  • Student Self-Assessment
  • How to use the Work Samples

Assessment Professional Learning Modules

These Modules developed by DE&T aim to assist teachers to:

• Understand the Assessment Advice and assessment principles including the distinctions between, and importance of,

  Assessment of learning

  Assessment for learning and

  Assessment as learning, and how these impact on learning and pedagogy;

• Audit ways in which they currently incorporate the Assessment Advice into their practice;
• Design assessment tasks that monitor students’ progress towards the achievement of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards;
• Design assessment processes that provide feedback into teaching programs to improve student learning; and
• Make more consistent teacher judgments about student learning using the Standards.

The modules have been designed as a flexible resource which can be tailored to meet the needs of individual schools.

Progression Points and Assessment Maps

This resource developed by DE&T is a series of two workshops that offer PowerPoint presentation and accompanying activities for relevant staff to use as a professional learning resource with colleagues. The focus is outlined below.

Workshop 1:    An overview of the standards, progression points and assessment maps

• Presentation (PPT - 1,317Kb)
• CSF and Standards (Word - 35K
• Number Level 4 CSF and VELS (Word - 75Kb)
• Venn diagram (Word - 25Kb)

Workshop 2: Using the standards, progression points and assessment maps to make on-balance judgments and improve consistency of outcomes

• Presentation (PPT - 498kb)
• English standards (Word - 45kb)
• Mathematics standards (Word - 101kb)
• Activity 5.4a (PDF - 67kb)

Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT) Professional Learning

PoLT Online Professional Learning Resource

The PoLT online resource developed by DE&T focuses primarily on extending teacher knowledge and supporting the development of skills to be implemented within individual classrooms. This resource is flexible in that it can be used by individual teachers or in facilitated groups. It can also be used in conjunction with the PoLT Professional Development Modules to extend professional learning, or it can be used as a stand alone resource when a school determines that its staff already has a good understanding of the Principles.

The PoLT online Professional Learning Resource is structured around ‘Guiding Questions' based on the key themes of each of the components. The other sections of the Resource support teachers to explore theory and develop strategies which will assist them in considering and addressing the guiding questions and themes within their own classrooms.

Curriculum Advice

VELS

Student reporting

National initiatives

Professional learning