Standard 6: Professional learning

Have a focused, structured approach to what you want to achieve as a team and establish common core values and attitudes.

Share expertise between schools to grow and enrich professional learning communities.

Be both a mentor and a learner, as the act of giving and receiving feedback establishes safe, respectful relationships conducive to critical engagement and change.

Participate in action learning or research where you design, act, observe and reflect. This involves examining data to determine current progress and future planning.

Foster the openness and courage necessary for a school to adapt diverse models to your school’s unique model, based on common beliefs and values.

Focus on the development of critical self-reflection so you are more able to actively challenge deficit views and assumptions you and others may have about Indigenous learners and their communities.

Focus on a specific area of professional learning and collaborate through professional relationships on a common goal.

Develop pedagogy through site-based, whole-school, collegial, data-driven professional learning that builds on a strong established research base. For teachers, lesson observation and feedback is at the heart of sharing professional knowledge.

Engage critically with external resources to gauge their appropriateness and relevance for Indigenous learners and compatibility with your aspirations for pedagogical improvement.