Achieving Performance and Development Culture Accreditation
Let Gould League help you become a Victorian DE&T Performance and Development Culture accredited school with Schoolgrounds for Learning!
The Victorian Department of Education and Training’s (DE&T) objective is for all Government schools to be accredited as Flagship Strategy 4: Performance and Development Culture (P&D Culture) schools by 2008 and to invite non-government schools to join this improvement journey.
Schoolgrounds for Learning enables schools to reach Level Four Accreditation level in Elements 3 and 4, and further enhances belief by teachers that the school has a performance and development culture – Element 5.
Level Four Accreditation requirements:
Element 3 |
- aligning teacher professional development to school priorities and improved student learning
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Element 4: |
- focusing PD at both group and individual level, teachers are given the training, support and activities required to run whole-school professional development
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- linking PD activities and school priorities
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- linking PD activities and individual development needs for some teachers
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Level Five Accreditation requirements
Element 4: |
- demonstrating skill or knowledge transfer into the classroom and positive impact on students
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- linking PD to career and succession planning and teacher’s future aspirations
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- ensuring that the PD program reflects all of the Principles of Highly Effective Professional Learning
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Teacher P&D Culture Benefits
The six-month Schoolgrounds for Learning course guides and supports teachers to:
- lead teams of teachers, share the workload and their experience
- share ownership through community consultation and decision-making
- continuously improve through evaluation, reflection and modification
- build sustainability through a model of distributed leadership
School Benefits
- Up to five years worth of schoolgrounds projects that provide authentic learning opportunities for students
- Individual/collective responsibility at all levels of the school
- Workplace-based professional learning
- Staff sharing experiences and expertise
- Integrating teacher work and learning
- Group pursuit of professional learning
- A variety of opportunities for teachers to give feedback about school planning and functioning
Other Blueprint for Government Schools Links
The materials and activities from Schoolgrounds for Learning underpins the work schools will undertake with the Blueprint for Government Schools:
- Student Learning (Strategy 1), including principle 6 of PoLT (Principles of Learning and Teaching): Learning connects strongly with communities and practice beyond the classroom.
- Building Leadership Capacity (Strategy 3)
- Teacher Professional Development (Strategy 4)
- School Improvement (Strategy 6)
- Leading Schools Fund (Strategy 7).
(material from the Victorian Department of Education and Training’s Performance and Development Culture used with permission)
Find out more about the Schoolgrounds for Learning course… 
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