The Australian Charter for the Professional Learning of Teachers and School Leaders

1. The Australian Charter for the Professional Learning of Teachers and School Leaders Understanding the Charter

2. Contents • What is the Charter? • Why develop a Charter? • Where does it fit? • Purpose • Key features • A professional learning culture • Charter in action

3. The Charter • Companion document to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, the Australian Professional Standard for Principals and the Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework • A resource for planning, design and evaluation of professional learning • For more information and resources www.aitsl.edu.au/professionallearning

4. Why develop a Charter?

5. Australian Professional Standards for Teachers • Dual purpose: • improvement • career progression • Map progression: • Graduate • Proficient • Highly Accomplished • Lead

6. Where does the Charter fit?

7. Purpose • Affirms the importance of learning in improving the professional knowledge, practice and engagement of all teachers and school leaders to achieve improvement in student outcomes • Articulatesthe expectation that all teachers and school leaders actively engage in professional learning throughout their careers • Describesthe characteristics of a high quality professional learning culture and of effective professional learning

8. Key features of the Charter • Articulates the central importance of professional learning to teacher quality and student learning. • Three key characteristics: • Relevant • Collaborative • Futures Focused • Crucial role of evaluation of professional learning

9. Characteristics of effective professional learning Relevant • current research • new solutions • timely • identified student needs • school goals • matched to learner View the video for this example online: http://www.teacherstandards.aitsl.edu.au/Illustrations/Details/IOP00017

10. Characteristics of effective professional learning Collaborative • observe • reflect • coach • interact with experts • create learning communities • seek feedback • mentor View the video for this example online: http://www.teacherstandards.aitsl.edu.au/Illustrations/Details/IOP00079

11. Characteristics of effective professional learning Future Focused • future needs • theorise • high-level skills • change • explore research • innovate • challenge View the video for this example online: http://www.teacherstandards.aitsl.edu.au/Illustrations/Details/IOP00046

12. Evaluation is key to effective professional learning • sophisticated, robust, multi-method • built in at the start • focuses on changes in teacher and leader practice • tracks change over the short, medium and long term

13. Professional learning culture Is there a professional learning culture? Is there: • data and evidence of student work underpinning professional learning • evaluation of professional learning occurring • leaders supporting ongoing adult learning and risk taking • collective responsibility for improving practice • disciplined collaboration • high levels of trust, interaction and inter-dependence • structures, explicit planning and time; and • alignment between performance, development and professional learning activities?

14. Group activity: Developing a professional learning culture • Select the most relevant card, or combination of cards, to meet a particular need for development within your professional learning context

15. Professional learning animation

16. Charter in action