Teaching and Learning Framework
Teaching and Learning Framework Foreword As educators, our purpose is to awaken and nurture our learners’ self-belief, self-worth and sense of wonder and curiosity. We aspire to deliver world-class educational experiences that meet the needs of our learners and the educational demands of an ever-changing world. The SMGS Teaching and Learning Framework is drawn from researching and evaluating the best global educational practices, infused with our own tailored approach, that complement our context and the educational needs of our local and global community. The Teaching and Learning Framework represents what we believe to be the most powerful approach to achieving the realisation of true inspirational learning. Our Teaching and Learning Framework is purposefully designed with three interrelated structural layers to provide our teachers with clear direction on achieving our shared goal. Elevations represent the six key Waypoints are markers that Pathways help our teachers aspects of our Framework that guide our teachers to reach their navigate their way to each support and lead our teachers to potential within each Elevation. Waypoint. deliver a world-class education for our students.
Our teachers guide our learners on their journey to uncover and discover new learning, empowering achievement beyond perceived potential.
Teaching and Learning Framework
Real-World Application
Engage learners in real-world application to solve problems with inter-relational complexities.
Extend and Inspire Learning
Cultivate curious, creative, critical thinkers and inspire deeper learning.
Master Knowledge and Skills
Instill strong foundational knowledge and skills in our students across diverse key learning areas.
Lead Cultures of Thinking and Learning
Embolden learners to work beyond perceived potential and establish effective learning habits and routines.
Nurture Relationships in Our School Community
Foster a positive self-belief in students and build authentic and meaningful connections.
Practise Professionally
Create a stimulating, purposeful, reflective and highly professional learning environment where students and teachers thrive.
Our teachers create stimulating, purposeful, reflective and highly professional learning environments where learners thrive.
Practise Professionally Create a stimulating, purposeful, reflective and highly professional learning environment where students and teachers thrive. 1.1
Embody Professionalism
1.6
Deliver Flexible, Adaptable, Agile Teaching
1.2
Rigorously Design Instruction and Delivery
1.7
Engage with Continuous Professional Growth
1.3
Design and Implement Authentic Assessment Practices
1.8
Engage in Analysis and Reflection with Self and Others
1.4
Differentiate and Personalise Learning
1.9
Aspire to Uphold the SMGS Desired Teacher Attributes
1.5
Deliver Specific, Meaningful, Timely Feedback
Practise Professionally embodies the elements of teaching that exemplify professionalism combined with the attributes we believe contribute to distinctly successful and inspiring educators. Our teachers Practise Professionally to deliver stimulating, contemporary, highly professional learning experiences where learners thrive. Through engaging in continuous cycles of reflection and growth our teachers prosper, ensuring they remain agile in their craft, masters in their domain and at the forefront of leading exceptional educational delivery.
Our teachers believe when students feel safe, supported and connected to their learning, they are willing to ask questions, seek assistance, challenge themselves and explore their learning, leading to a deeper, richer understanding of the content.
Nurture Relationships in Our School Community Foster a positive self-belief in students and build authentic and meaningful connections. 2.1
Authentically Know and Care for Students
2.4
Strengthen Students’ Sense of Self-Worth and Self-Belief
2.2
Provide Safe and Supportive Learning Environments Where Students Thrive
2.5
Model the SMGS Core Values
2.3
Regularly Engage with Parents and Carers
2.6
Develop a Strong Sense of Community
Nurturing Relationships in Our School Community embraces our belief that connecting and belonging are fundamental to the wellbeing of our learners. Our teachers prioritise strong, pastoral relationships with our learners, nurturing authentic connections built on mutual trust and respect. Our teachers exemplify the values of our school promoting a safe and inclusive school community that fosters individuality and allows each learner to thrive. Through engaging in frequent and meaningful interactions with parents and carers our teachers create crucial, collaborative relationships that ensure the social, emotional and academic needs of our students are known and used to inform their practice.
Our teachers authentically engage students by designing learning that is personal, relevant and inspiring. This develops agile, transferrable skill sets and promotes the development of effective and robust learning habits.
Lead Cultures of Thinking and Learning Embolden learners to work beyond perceived potential and establish effective learning habits and routines. 3.1
Promote Robust and Purposeful Learning Habits and Routines
3.5
Promote Effective Communicators
3.2
Embolden Learners to Work Beyond Perceived Potential
3.6
Shape Self-Regulated and Self-Directed Learners
3.3
Inspire Students to Develop and Sustain a Growth Mindset
3.7
Foster Learners to be Problem-Solvers
3.4
Enable Student Voice
3.8
Encourage an Open Mind to New Learning
Lead Cultures of Thinking and Learning allows our teachers to equip our students with robust and purposeful learning habits that we believe will embolden our learners to reach beyond their own perceived potential. Our teachers design learning that shapes self-directed, selfregulated, collaborative problem solvers, building capacity in our learners to grapple with and navigate the complexities of life and learning. Through building a culture of contribution and communication our learners develop expertise in asking probing questions, hypothesising and reflecting on their understanding. Notably, leading cultures of thinking and learning supports the development of growth mindset values and academic resilience through the explicit teaching of core values and the inherent benefits of persevering through perceived difficulties.
Our teachers are highly talented professionals who are committed to seeking and obtaining depth and currency in their domains to enable and support strong foundational knowledge and skill progression across diverse key learning areas.
Master Knowledge and Skills Instil strong foundational knowledge and skills in our students across diverse key learning areas. 4.1
Exhibit and Instil Mastery of Foundational Knowledge and Skills
4.2 Display Exceptional Understanding of How Knowledge is Acquired
4.3
Seek and Obtain Depth and Currency in Domain Knowledge
4.4
Implement Innovative Practice
4.5
Foster Rich Engagement and Intrinsically Motivated Learners
Master Knowledge and Skills defines the expertise of our teachers across subject areas and emphasises how we believe teacher mastery of knowledge and skills leads to rich engagement and intrinsically motivated learners. Our teachers are experts in their craft, continually seeking depth and currency in their teaching domain and working collaboratively with colleagues to extend and innovate their practice. Our teachers display remarkable depth and breadth of knowledge, anticipating and responding to delivery requirements. Through a deep understanding of how learners acquire knowledge in their subject area, including prerequisite knowledge and skills, common student misunderstandings and errors, learning difficulties and effective interventions, our teachers foster rich engagement and depth of understanding.
Our teachers cultivate curiosity, creativity and critical thinking to challenge, stretch and build expertise in our learners. Students are empowered to achieve beyond their perceived potential.
Extend and Inspire Learning Cultivate curious, creative, critical thinkers and inspire deeper learning. 5.1
Promote Agile Thinking
5.4
Challenge Learners to Think Beyond the Known
5.2
Cultivate Curious, Creative, Critical Thinkers
5.5
Design and Deliver Opportunities to Collaborate
5.3
Develop Reflective Learners
Extend and Inspire Learning is the ability to empower our students to ignite their curiosity and their critical and creative thinking to develop and deepen their understanding. The curriculum is used as the vehicle to drive the exploration of how we learn. Deep learning is achieved when students are provided with opportunities to find relevance in their learning and are afforded time and space to critically analyse concepts and apply new knowledge. Our teachers challenge, stretch and build expertise in all of our students across a diverse range of subject areas by promoting high expectations, fostering curiosity and agile thinking and instilling an openness to new learning. Our teachers promote a culture of collaboration through intentionally designing experiences that enable students to justify their thinking and contribute to the intellectual life of the class.
Our teachers re-frame and analyse school knowledge into real-world contexts, offering global perspectives that challenge learners to value and grapple with different ways of thinking.
Real-World Application Engage learners in real-world application to solve problems with inter-relational complexities. 6.1
Extend Learning Beyond the Classroom
6.2
Design, Reframe and Contextualise Learning in Real-World Applications
6.3
Design and Facilitate Opportunities to Solve Simple and Complex Problems
6.4
Employ Entrepreneurial Thinking Practices
6.5
Recognise Inter-Relational Complexities to Create New Ideas and Concepts
6.6 Engage in Abstract Thinking to Wonder What Else May be Possible 6.7
Foster Service-Learning Opportunities
Real-World Application relates to the pinnacle purpose of education – to find connections to learning beyond the school environment and in doing so develop a love of learning that is both transferrable and life-long. Our teachers re-frame and analyse school knowledge into real-world contexts, offering global perspectives that challenge students to value and grapple with different ways of thinking. When a learner can apply new learning to real-world contexts, they are able to appreciate the role that thinking plays in becoming an active contributor to the world around them.
Teaching and Learning Framework Cultivate curious, creative, critical thinkers and inspire deeper learning.
Embolden learners to work beyond perceived potential and establish effective learning habits and routines.
Create a stimulating, purposeful, reflective and highly professional learning environment where students and teachers thrive.
Engage learners in real-world application to solve problems with inter-relational complexities.
Instil strong foundational knowledge and skills in our students across diverse key learning areas.
Foster a positive self-belief in students and build authentic and meaningful connections.