8. In-School Grade or Subject Team Meetings
This parameter is focused on bringing teaching partners together to examine and discuss student work. Time is allotted and facilitation support is provided for grade team partners or common subject teachers to meet regularly for discussions focused on the literacy achievement of individual students.
In a team meeting, teachers collaboratively assess student work generated from common assessment tools and exemplars. This analysis of student work supports the development of a common understanding of the expected standards across a grade and serves to support consistent practice between classrooms in a school.
The information generated by the dialogue is used to plan next steps for instruction and assessment, to decide how progress will be monitored, and to determine how teachers can support one another in their work with students.
Team meetings, while focused on individual student work, produce a wealth of information and strategies that inform the work carried out with all students in small and large groups in the classroom. This parameter ensures:
The information generated by the dialogue is used to plan next steps for instruction and assessment, to decide how progress will be monitored, and to determine how teachers can support one another in their work with students.
Team meetings, while focused on individual student work, produce a wealth of information and strategies that inform the work carried out with all students in small and large groups in the classroom. This parameter ensures:
- Teams meet regularly to discuss the literacy achievement of individual students
- Teachers assess student work collaboratively, using common assessment tools and exemplars
- Analysis of student work supports the development of a common understanding of the expected standards across a grade or course; it also serves to support consistent practice between classrooms in a school.
Quality Catholic Schooling Link
A high priority is given to the school-wide analysis and discussion of systematically collected data on student outcomes, including academic, attendance and behavioural outcomes, and student wellbeing. Data analyses consider overall school performance as well as the performances of students from identified priority groups, evidence of improvement/regression over time, performances in comparison with similar schools, and, in the case of data from standardised tests, measures of growth across the years of school.