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The Link Between Teaching for Effective Learning and the National Professional Standards for Teachers

 * The National Professional Standards for Teachers were officially released February 2011.**


 * AITSL: National Professional Standards for Teachers || DECD: South Australian Teacher for Effective Learning Framework ||
 * ** Professional Knowledge ** ||  ||
 * **Standard 1:** Know Students and how they learn || **Domain 1: Learning for Effective Teaching**
 * 1.1 Understanding how self and others learn
 * Domain 3: Develop expert learners**
 * 3.1 Teach students how to learn
 * 3.2 Foster deep understanding & skilful action
 * 3.3 Explore the construction of knowledge
 * 3.4 Provide dialogue as a means of learning
 * Domain 4: Personalise & Connect Learning**
 * 4.1 Build a learners understanding
 * 4.2 Connect learning to students lives and aspirations ||
 * **Standard 2:** Know the content and how to teach it || **Domain 1: Learning for Effective Teaching**
 * 1.2 Develop deep pedagogical and content knowledge ||
 * ** Professional Practice ** ||  ||
 * **Standard 3:** Plan for and Implement effective teaching and learning || **Domain 1: Learning for Effective Teaching**
 * 1.6 Design, plan & organise for teaching and learning ||
 * **Standard 4:** Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments || **Domain 2: Create safe conditions for rigorous learning**
 * 2.1 develop democratic relationships
 * 2.2 build a community of learners
 * 2.3 negotiate learning
 * 2.4 challenge students to achieve high standards with appropriate support ||
 * **Standard 5:** Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning || **Domain 4: Personalise and Connect Learning**
 * 4.3 Apply and Assess learning in authentic contexts
 * 4.4 Communicate learning in multiple modes ||
 * ** Professional Engagement ** || ||
 * **Standard 6:** Engage with Professional Learning Communities || **Domain 1: Learning for Effective Teaching**
 * 1.3 Participate in professional learning communities & networks
 * 1.5 Discuss educational purpose & policy ||
 * **Standard 7:** Engage professionally with colleagues, parents / carers and the community || **Domain 1: Learning for Effective Teaching**
 * 1.4 Engage with the community ||


 * Interesting article – “Top teachers to be rewarded” by the Education Minister Peter Garrett.**

Click here to watch an animated video explaining The National Professional Standards for Teachers.

__**1. Professional Knowledge**__ Teachers draw on a body of professional knowledge and research to respond to the needs of their students within their educational contexts. Teachers know their students well, including their diverse linguistic, cultural and religious backgrounds. They know how the experiences that students bring to their classroom affect their continued learning. They know how to structure their lessons to meet the physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of their students. Teachers know the content of their subjects and curriculum. They know and understand the fundamental concepts, structure and enquiry processes relevant to the programs they teach. Teachers understand what constitutes effective, developmentally appropriate strategies in their learning and teaching programs and use this knowledge to make the content meaningful to students. Through their teaching practice, teachers develop students' literacy and numeracy within their subject areas. They are also able to use information and communication technology to contextualise and expand their students' modes and breadth of learning.

Standards in this domain

 * Standard 1:** Know students and how they learn
 * Standard 2:** Know the content and how to teach it

__**2. Professional Practice**__ Teachers are able to make learning engaging and valued. They are able to create and maintain safe, inclusive and challenging learning environments and implement fair and equitable behaviour management plans. They use sophisticated communication techniques. Teachers have a repertoire of effective teaching strategies and use them to implement well-designed teaching programs and lessons. They regularly evaluate all aspects of their teaching practice to ensure they are meeting the learning needs of theirstudents. They interpret and use student assessment data to diagnose barriers to learning and to challenge students to improve their performance. They operate effectively at all stages of the teaching and learning cycle, including planning for learning and assessment, developing learning programs, teaching, assessing, providing feedback on student learning and reporting to parents/carers.

Standards in this domain
Standard 4: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
 * Standard 3: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning**
 * Standard 5:** Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning

Teachers model effective learning. They identify their own learning needs and analyse, evaluate and expand their professional learning, both collegially and individually. Teachers demonstrate respect and professionalism in all their interactions with students, colleagues, parents/carers and the community. They are sensitive to the needs of parents/carers and can communicate effectively with them about their children's learning. Teachers value opportunities to engage with their school communities within and beyond the classroom to enrich the educational context for students. They understand the links between school, home and community in the social and intellectual development of their students.
 * __3. Professional Engagement__**

Standards in this domain
Standard 6: Engage in professional learning
 * [|Standard 7:]** Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community