Excellence in Teaching & Learning

WHAT WE WILL DO: School leadership enables conditions for quality teaching

What Occurred in 2022:

The Whole School Expectations for student conduct and behaviour were implemented and promoted in each morning announcement with our students. This has without doubt created a calm and orderly environment for our students as a pre-requisite for learning.

A new Performance Management process introduced for all staff which was linked to the AITSL standards and links to the school’s Business Plan. Due to the impact of COVID, the reflection and planning meetings were pushed back to late Term 2 and there was little time in Term 4 for the review of the plans. Teachers set goals based on their specific goals against Whole School Approaches in literacy and numeracy.

Staff Meeting / LTL Meetings focus were directly linked to strategies and initiatives from the EPS Business Plan 2021-23, and 2022 Operation Plans. Priority area plans provided staff with the direction and strategies to enhance teaching quality.

School Development Days were specifically designed and planned to support teachers in develop and improve their teaching quality. With links to Business and Operation Plans, the SDDs were fundamental in enabling the successful implementation of both plans.

A well-developed distributed leadership model, which has been in place for several years, continued to enable support, guidance and direction for all staff to further develop quality teaching. Learning Team Leaders, Coaches in English, Numeracy and InitiaLit; have strengthened the standard of quality teaching across the school.

Recommendations for 2023

• QTS Staff Culture Survey is going to be administered in early 2023 to determine the gaps for quality teaching and learning at EPS.

• New Performance Mgt tool which has been negotiated between DoE and SSTUWA to be implemented in 2023.

• GROWTH Coaching conversations to be introduced as part of Performance Management and tie to classroom observations and feedback.

• Review of our Whole School Expectations – what can be added to these essential foundations of culture in our school for 2023?