TEACHING 

& 

LEARNING 

STATEMENT

Sacred Heart is committed to providing a curriculum supported by contemporary learning tools which ensures the intellectual, social, and moral development of students.

• Teachers use the Victorian Curriculum to plan, monitor, assess and report on the learning achievement of every student.
• Teachers facilitate rigorous and relevant learning opportunities that lead students to explore and question significant ideas and create new knowledge.
• Students’ interests and experiences are valued and reflected in the curriculum and teachers support students through explicit and scaffolded teaching.
• Contemporary learning tools enable learners to connect with communities beyond the school, providing opportunities to engage with diverse perspectives and collaborate with others.
• When teachers create a climate that promotes critical and creative exploration of ideas, learners are supported to engage in deep and powerful learning.

Enabling the Learner

• Teaching staff are attentive to the core knowledge, skills and understandings that are required, to be successful in, and participate fully, in today’s world.
• Learning opportunities are created for students when core knowledge and skills are integrated across the curriculum in authentic ways.
• Reflection, high order thinking, creativity, collaboration and the use of contemporary tools are considered essential for creating new knowledge and participating in and contributing to community.

Engaging the Learner

• Curriculum is designed so as to lead students to develop deep understandings about themselves, others and the world.
• Teachers create authentic opportunities for students to learn from, and with, others.
• Powerful learning experiences enable students to take responsibility for themselves and commit to authentic action.
• Teachers encourage students to become involved in ongoing personal transformation; teachers seek to empower students to become self-sufficient lifelong learners.