PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The College Strategic Plan comprises 4 Strategic Priority Areas, one being “A learning Centred College”. Within this priority area are 2 key focus areas. One of these key focus areas is “Teaching will be built on collaborative, contemporary practices which will engage and inspire students, further developing them to be graduates ready to successfully take their place in a changing world”. The College is committed to the professional development of all staff, ensuring staff continually undertake professional learning opportunities that will enrich their teaching practices and increase their teacher capacity. All staff are required to develop their own individual professional learning plan each year to support and guide their own professional development.

The College was very fortunate to have John De Courcy facilitating Professional Learning sessions throughout 2022. The aim for this professional learning was that all staff would have an understanding that data is not just numbers, rather the need for a common approach to data and that a learning gain focus is highly valuable. Subsequent sessions looked at “So what builds the learning?”. Two particular areas were highlighted for future exploration with staff; Resilience as an underpinning of achievement, and the impact of collective efficacy.

The College was fortunate to have a partnership with an educator such as John as we continue to build the capacity of all our teaching staff to ensure student achievement is a priority.

Professional Learning Groups were established at the College in previous years to develop a culture of staff collaboration and collective efficacy. These PL groups continued to provide opportunities for staff to be collaborative, share quality practice and engage in dialogue to consolidate shared understandings of the College’s Vision. These groups will continue to support professional learning opportunities in 2023 and beyond, with a focus on the use of data to know our students and the consolidation of shared common approaches to learning and teaching.

Professional Learning opportunities supporting preparations for Curriculum Reform was a priority in 2022 for the Junior School, ensuring that planning and preparation for implementation of the new K-2 English and Mathematics Syllabuses occurred seamlessly in 2023. Senior School teachers were also preparing for curriculum reform, with draft syllabuses due for release in 2023 and implementation by 2025.

In 2022, teachers participated in a range of external professional development opportunities in areas such as:

• HSC Data Analysis

• IB Primary Years Program

• NSW Curriculum Review Workshops

• NCCD

• Child Safeguarding

• First Aid and Remote First Aid

• Youth Mental Health First Aid

• Law Sense

• Primary Mathematics Seminars

• ICT Management

• TENS conferences (NESA)

• Disability Standards for Education

• CSNSW Efficacy project

• Tech Education Conference

• Middle Leaders Leadership program

• Black Dog Institute

• AGTA Conference

• HSC meet the markers sessions

• PYP

• AHISA Conference

• CSNSW Forum

Teacher Accreditation Status 2022

0 Highly Accomplished or Lead Teacher accreditation

110 Proficient Teacher accreditation

6 Conditional accreditation

1 Provisional accreditation