ED1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Self-Assessment, Peer Pressure, Sequence Learning
Lecture 8: Assessment and reporting
AITSL Graduate Standards
- Know students and how they learn
Focus areas:
1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of physical, social and intellectual development and
characteristics of students and how these may affect learning.
1.2 Understand how students learn
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of research into how students learn and the implications for
teaching.
1.3 Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
- Demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs
of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds.
1.4 Strategies for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
- Demonstrate broad knowledge and understanding of the impact of culture, cultural identity and
linguistic background on the education of students from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
backgrounds.
1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies for differentiating teaching to meet the
specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
1.6 Strategies to support full participation of students with disability
- Demonstrate broad knowledge and understanding of legislative requirements and teaching strategies
that support participation and learning of students with disability.
- Know the content and how to teach it
Focus Areas:
2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concepts, substance and structure of the content and
teaching strategies of the teaching area.
2.2 Content selection and organisation
- Organise content into an effective learning and teaching sequence.
2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting
- Use curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge to design learning sequences and lesson plans.
2.4 Understand and respect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to promote reconciliation
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of, understanding of and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander histories, cultures and languages.
2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies
- Know and understand literacy and numeracy teaching strategies and their application in teaching
areas.
2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
- Implement teaching strategies for using ICT to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students.
1. Plan for and Implement Effective Teaching and Learning
Focus Areas:
3.1 Establish challenging learning goals
- Set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students of varying abilities and
characteristics.
3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
- Plan lesson sequences using knowledge of student learning, content and effective teaching strategies.
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3.3 Use teaching strategies
- Include a range of teaching strategies.
3.4 Select and use resources
- Demonstrate knowledge of a range of resources, including ICT, that engage students in their learning.
3.5 Use effective classroom communication
- Demonstrate a range of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to support student
engagement.
3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of strategies that can be used to evaluate teaching programs to
improve student learning.
3.7 Engage parents/ carers in the educative process
Describe a broad range of strategies for involving parents/carers in the educative process.
1. Create and Maintain Safe and Supportive Learning Environments
Focus Areas:
4.1 Support student participation
- Identify strategies to support inclusive student participation and engagement in classroom activities.
4.2 Manage classroom activities
- Demonstrate the capacity to organise classroom activities and provide clear directions.
4.3 Manage challenging behaviour
- Demonstrate knowledge of practical approaches to manage challenging behaviour.
4.4 Maintain student safety
- Describe strategies that support students’ wellbeing and safety working within school and/or system,
curriculum and legislative requirements.
4.5 Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relevant issues and the strategies available to support the safe,
responsible and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching.
1. Assess, Provide Feedback and Report on Student Learning
Focus Areas:
5.1 Assess student learning
- Demonstrate understanding of assessment strategies, including informal and formal, diagnostic,
formative and summative approaches to assess student learning.
5.2 Provide feedback to students on their learning
- Demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of providing timely and appropriate feedback to
students about their learning.
5.3 Make consistent and comparable judgements
- Demonstrate understanding of assessment moderation and its application to support consistent and
comparable judgements of student learning.
5.4 Interpret student data
- Demonstrate the capacity to interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and modify
teaching practice.
5.5 Report on student achievement
- Demonstrate understanding of a range of strategies for reporting to students and parents/carers and
the purpose of keeping accurate and reliable records of student achievement.
1. Engage in Professional Learning
Focus Areas:
6.1 Identify and plan professional learning needs
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in
identifying professional learning needs.
6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
- Understand the relevant and appropriate sources of professional learning for teachers.
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Document Summary
1. 1 physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of physical, social and intellectual development and. Know students and how they learn characteristics of students and how these may affect learning. 1. 2 understand how students learn: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of research into how students learn and the implications for teaching. 1. 3 students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds. Demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds. 1. 4 strategies for teaching aboriginal and torres strait islander students. Demonstrate broad knowledge and understanding of the impact of culture, cultural identity and linguistic background on the education of students from aboriginal and torres strait islander backgrounds. 1. 5 differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
