Making  time  for  great  teaching - Dr Ben Jensen

Why teaching and learning is not improving in schools More effective teaching is the key to improving school education.1 to provide the necessary time for effective professional learning The best way to do this is through professional learning programs programs.7 that seek to continually improve classroom learning and teaching.2 But over its history Australian school education has Not allocating e. [...] If their impact is positive, they become part of learning and teaching across the school.19 The process helps Teacher mentoring and coaching that is intensive and involves teachers to evaluate their own teaching, and to discover how regular classroom observation and feedback.15 Effective they should change their teaching to benefit students.20 mentoring and coaching helps teachers diagnose their s. [...] Parents, the media and the community will always push for more to be done and leaders will be pressured to put Grattan Institute 2014 14 Making time for great teaching For example, in some of our case-study schools some teachers These work requirements for teachers also highlight the lack of spent: prioritisation in school education. [...] Small schools have fewer resources to spread across 42 While there is a lot of work on the need for teacher professional learning and a teachers and are less able to reallocate resources to different number of trials and innovation analyses of various programs, there is relatively activities. [...] the extent to which active collaboration already occurs in the school and existing professional learning activities To target the professional learning plan to the needs of each school, Grattan staff had separate meetings with: the types of challenges the school may face in implementing new professional learning programs, and the Principal and school leadership team (multiple times) including head.