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Professional Development

• Continuous improvement is a given. Learning is our core business and all leadership roles are concerned with improving student learning outcomes through improving the quality of teaching and learning within the school.
  
• Approaches to improving the quality of teaching and learning typically involve all members of the academic staff, led by the Principal and the Senior Staff team. This leadership is about leading through the vision and values, ensuring and clarifying understanding of that vision, and about modelling, coaching and building commitment.
• Classroom practice is shared in small teams of teachers and the approach is one of experimentation and evidence-based decision making. Sharing excellent practice is facilitated through the use of 'the observation classroom' and there is the facility for producing videos of classroom practice for analysis and reflection.
• Reflection on, and discussion about, classroom practice and curriculum development also provide opportunity to ensure that there is clear and shared understanding of excellent practice.

Performance Management

The Principal and other members of the Senior Staff Team keep abreast of new conceptions of teaching and learning. The leaders are responsible for ensuring that the implications of these ideas are understood and are reflected in the curriculum, school and classroom structures and practices.

The instructional leaders in the school pay close attention to developing teachers, to evaluating and facilitating their instructional effectiveness, and to the careful design of curriculum.

There is a clear emphasis on the use of strategies in the classroom to maximise learning and on the use of learning contexts that facilitate the accomplishment of identified essential learning outcomes for the student.

The culture of the workplace is one where there is agreement on an alignment of practice that produces excellence in learning. The staff work together to identify and share excellent practice. The professional culture is reflective, collaborative, analytical and open.

This is a place of inspiring and exceptional teaching and learning.

The Principal and Leadership Team have responsibility for:

The management of accountability processes to ensure that the investment in learning of individual members of staff is reflected in student learning outcomes.

The performance management process is about establishing clear expectations of what is expected, providing feedback on the effectiveness of practice and identifying areas of development, particularly in relation to the goals of the school.

Each Head of School is responsible for the progress of all students in that area. The Head of School manages the performance of a team of teachers, in conjunction with the Head of Curriculum.

The Performance Management process involves interviews to discuss delivery on the school goals for that year and to facilitate agreement on how progress can be closely monitored and tracked. Clear expectations are made and discussion about how these can be achieved occurs around the competencies for the teacher's role.