Teaching & Learning
New Victorian Teaching & Learning Model (VTLM) - "Essential Elements of Teaching and Learning"
As part of The Age Schools Summit event on Thursday 13 June 2024, the Victorian Government announced revisions to the VTLM. The revisions have been informed by the recent work of and collaboration with the Australian Education Research Organisation.
The revisions provide a clear and concise framework based on 4 effective learning processes and 4 core elements of the teaching process.
The 4 elements of learning are:
- student attention, focus and regulation
- knowledge and memory
- retention and recall
- mastery and application.
The 4 elements of effective teaching are:
- planning
- enabling learning
- explicit teaching
- supported application.
It is expected all schools, as needed, will develop their teaching and learning programs to reflect this framework across all learning areas and grade and year levels. Commencing in 2025, schools have 3 years to complete any necessary changes.
As part of our new 2024-2028 School Strategic Plan we will work to incorporate these Essential Elements of Teaching and Learning (including Essential Literacy Elements) into our Jackson Teaching & Learning Model.
For more information, refer to the revised VTLM 2.0
Explicit Teaching of Phonics
As you may have seen in the media recently, the Minister of Education announced on the 13th of June for all schools to implement the explicit teaching of phonics in the early years. This is responding to the latest evidence on the importance of systematic synthetic phonics and phonemic awareness as part of the reading process (including oral language, vocabulary, reading fluency and comprehension). Systematic synthetic phonics is a structured approach that explicitly teaches the relationship between sounds and letters to read words. In addition to this structured approach to literacy, students will continue to receive exposure to rich texts and authentic literacy experiences.
At Jackson we started a phonics pilot in 2023 and have been rolling out the Little Learners Love Literacy (LLLL) program in 2024 in Years 3-6. Our Prep-2 students will be included in the roll out from Term 3. For more information, watch the About LLLL Video below or visit LLLL Science of Reading page:
Prompt Hierarchy
The Inclusive Classrooms division have adapted this Prompt Hierarchy resource from The Autism Helper website by Sasha Long (2017). Prompts aren't cheating and are a necessary teaching tool to support our students to reach independence. We use prompt as adults in the real world all the time, including assistive technologies e.g. Google Maps. As you move up the list, prompts become less invasive and student's independence increases. Teachers and Education Support Staff can use this to prompt, assess and give feedback on student's learning and support them to become as independent as possible in a task. This can also support classroom teams to communicate with each other and/or document the level of support required for a student. The Jackson version below also considers the ASDAN Levels of Support.
