Teaching and Learning
TRIADS
You may have noticed the inclusion of 'triads' in our Term 1 Meeting Schedule. As per staff feedback from our 2024 Staff Survey which indicated little opportunity to engage in collegiate observation and staff's desire for more professional feedback, coaching will be reignited as part of our professional learning.
Tridads will provide a structure to ensure that everyone is involved.
Triads are professional learning groups designed to provide the following opportunities:
- Cross-Year level and curriculum observation
- Targeted feedback for individual goals
- Building professional trust and knowledge
The Growth Coaching approach resonates strongly with the messages shared by David Anderson on our curriculum day:
The coaching process is very simple, as outlined below, using the Growth Coaching model. Many will also be familiar with the Learning Talk strategies that were part of professional learning both with David and in PL sessions last year. These Learning Talk strategies will provide an outline to enrich conversations.
When having coaching conversations, please make use of the GROWTH coaching conversation template.
Term 1 Triad teams
Blue: trained coaches and meeting rooms
Grey: meeting room
Maths Team: Professional Learning Opportunities on the Victorian Lesson Plans
DET has provided a seties of PL sessions on lessons to support the delivery of Maths 2.0. These also align with the VTLM 2.0.
As part of our PL on Mathematics 2.0 and the VTLM 2.0, Maths teachers will take part in an online professional learning as per the following schedule:
F, Y1, Y2 Teams: Thursday 6th March 2025 4-5pm
- Teaching addition and subtraction facts to 20 using Mathematics Victorian Lesson Plans
Y3 to Y6 Teams: Thursday 13th March 2025 4-5pm
- Teaching factors and multiples in the Victorian Lesson Plans
Maths Sub-school leaders (Rachel, Elisha, Julian): Thursday 13th March 4-5pm
- Introduction to the Victorian Lesson Plans (Mathematics)
Please register for your session via this link: https://arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/providers/VLPs
Time in Lieu: Each staff member can leave early (3:30pm) on 2 Mondays that you are not part of a meeting this Term. Please indicate this in the Daily Org as per the following example:
In column O, please write: Maths online PD on ... (please add the date of the PD please).
URSTRONG - New Staff Sign Up & French Resources
New staff (including assistantes)
URSTRONG is all about empowering kids with friendship skills while providing the adults in their lives, both parents and teachers, with a common language to support them. Kids learn what’s normal in a friendship, the difference between healthy and unhealthy friendships and how to stand up for themselves with kid-friendly concepts. As a URSTRONG School we’ll have access to a variety of resources, lesson plans, videos and URSTRONG’s Friendology 101 friendship curriculum.
To create an account please click on the following link https://urstrong.com/my-account/join-school/00f9b84fdc2dcaf745f9d0d9e6ec9e53 where you will be prompted to provide your name and email and asked to create a password. By completing this form you will be added to our schools URSTRONG Schools account and will have access to URSTRONG’s Educator Resource Centre including Friendology 101.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Any questions, please see Alycia.
French Teachers and Assistantes
As communicated last year, the Friend-O-Cycle and Friend-O-Meter have been translated and approved for use by URSTRONG! (Thanks again to Marilyne, Marie-Noelle and Edwige for helping with this long process).
You can find the PDFs here. Please print and use to your heart's content.
Handwriting
With our current emphasis on handwriting, a Font Package has been purchased which can be installed onto staff laptops. This provides the opportunity for us to create resources using the Victorian Handwriting fonts, including options for cursive and dotted thirds.
Please see examples of (some of) what is possible below and download the package here to install on your device.
If you have any challenges with this process, please see Simeon (Thanks in advance, Sim!)
