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**Helen Timperley - Section One to Five**

 Section one - **Focus on valued learning outcomes**
Professional learning experiences that focus on the links between particular teaching activities and valued student outcomes are associated with positive impacts on those outcomes media type="custom" key="3773839"
 * A. Reading for Meaning**


 * 1) What are the links teachers have to understand about the purpose of their own professional learning ?
 * 2) What key points are made about learning outcomes and teacher expectations?
 * 3) How is responsibility for the learning of all students heightened and developed by teachers?
 * 4) What dangers do school leadership need to avoid?


 * B. Personal Reflection**

Are professional development activities in your school directly linked to student learning outcomes so that teachers can make a direct correlation from their own learning to that of their students?


 * C. Contribution to the Group**

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 * 1) Add your thoughts to the Voicethread below in response to the question prompt on the Voicethread. Need help to do this? See the instructions on the 'Voicethread page'.
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 Section two - **Worthwhile Content**
The knowledge and skills developed in teacher professional learning are those established as effective in achieving valued student outcomes.

Summary
 * Professional knowledge and skills that have a positive impact on student outcomes come from an evidence base not simply from policy
 * Context specific approaches to teacher learning develop teaching practices consistent with effective teaching and also enable teachers to transfer the principles into their practice.


 * Personal Reflection**

Why is it important for professional learning to be context specific? Reflect on the professional development in your school/cluster/organisation. Does it take account of the above principles?



 Section three - **Integration of Knowledge and Skills**
The integration of essential teacher knowledge and skills promotes deep teacher learning and effective changes in practice media type="custom" key="3773841"
 * A. Reading for Meaning**

1. What are the essential teacher knowledge and skills? 2. Why are assessment knowledge and skills important? 3. Why is pedagogical content knowledge important? 4.Why is the integration of theory and practice important? 5.What is wrong with a skills only approach? 6.What is wrong with a theory only approach? 7. What then must be taken into account when designing professional learning opportunities for teachers?


 * B. Personal Reflection**

Does your leadership team consider these issues when designing professional learning opportunites for staff. What methods do you/could you use in planning professional learning to ensure these principles are taken into account?


 * C. Contribution to the Group**

You can do this in two ways:  media type="custom" key="3774209"
 * 1) Add your thoughts to the Voicethread below in response to the question prompt on the Voicethread. Need help to do this? See the instructions on the 'Voicethread page'.
 * 2) Respond to the question prompt by contributing to [|the forum topic in the Discussion tab.]

Section four - **Assessment for professional inquiry**
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 * A. Reading for Meaning**


 * 1) What must teachers identify to assist their students to achieve valued outcomes?
 * 2) What is often missing from models of professional learning that focus on stuctures and processes?
 * 3) Why do teachers need sophisticated assessment skills?
 * 4) Why is self regulation important for teacher professional learning and what will support its development?
 * 5) What kinds of assessment practice are conducive to professional inquiry?


 * B. Personal Reflection**

What sorts of assessment practice are used in your school for professional learning and for what purposes? Are reflective and self regulatory practices used with staff? Are these practices carried into the classroom with students? How do such processes connect to what professional learning teachers need to undertake?


 * C. Contribution to the Group**

You can do this in two ways:
 * 1) Add your thoughts to the Voicethread below in response to the question prompt on the Voicethread. Need help to do this? See the instructions on the 'Voicethread page'.
 * 2) Respond to the question prompt by contributing to [|the forum topic in the Discussion tab.]

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 Section five - **Multiple Opportunities to Learn and Apply**
To make significant changes to their practice, teachers need multiple opportunities to learn new information and understand its implications for practice in environments where there is both **trust** and **challenge**. media type="custom" key="3773853"
 * A. Reading for Meaning**


 * 1) Why are multiple opportunities needed to absorb new ideas?
 * 2) How should these opportunities be designed?
 * 3) Why is it important to have an extended timeframe over which activities occur?
 * 4) Why are both trust and challenge important?
 * 5) The question of engagement is a complex one. What does the research evidence suggest about engagement?


 * B. Personal Reflection**

1. Is professional learning in your school premised on the following elements? 2. Are multiple opportunites offered for mastery? 3. How are staff encouraged to take part? (Volunteer, conscription, reward, requirement of appraisal processes etc?)
 * rationale for participation
 * identified student needs
 * important content
 * engagement in meaningful activities


 * C. Contribution to the Group**

You can do this in two ways:  media type="custom" key="3774261"
 * 1) Add your thoughts to the Voicethread below in response to the question prompt on the Voicethread. Need help to do this? See the instructions on the 'Voicethread page'.
 * 2) Respond to the question prompt by contributing to [|the forum topic in the Discussion tab.]

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