BY INVITATION ONLY High-Impact Practices - ALBANY

Description

Quality teaching is the most important school-based influence on student achievement. Developing a shared understanding of what excellent practice looks like is a challenge for schools that are striving to become high performing learning organisations.  While excellence may not look exactly the same in every classroom, evidence suggests that there are some instructional practices that work well in most contexts. This professional learning program introduces the High Impact Practices (HIPS) and provides teachers and teams with opportunities to observe, reflect on and improve across a range of foundation classroom practices.  

The HIPs derive from the High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS). The HITS are a series of 10 instructional practices, which have emerged from significant research related to what works to improve student learning, in Australian classrooms and across the world.  

Project Details

HIPs is a professional learning program that focuses on building teacher instructional range with evidence-based classroom practices that engage students in learning. The HIPs are not intended to replace other teaching strategies that teachers are already using with success. Instead they will add to the repertoire of effective strategies that teachers can apply to meet their student's wide variety of learning needs. 

The project objectives are to:

1. Build teacher instructional capacity;
2. Develop professional knowledge on instructional coaching; and
3. Enhance teacher’s capacity to use data to assess the impact of HIPs on student learning.