Planning & Reporting

Rigorous learning occurs when the learning is safe

This means teachers:

• Develop positive relationships with their students
• Encourage all students to have a go and ask questions
• Develop skills in students that create self-directed learners with a growth-mindset
• Encourage students to be both teacher and learner
• Take responsibility for students success in partnership with students and parent

Rigorous learning occurs when we develop expert learners

This means teachers:

• Explicitly embed Building learning Power strategies in all learning aspects
• Ensure learning is connected to learners’ experiences and transfers across learning areas where applicable
• Develop critical thinking skills in students to improve learning outcomes
• Promote student dialogue to make sense of learning and to challenge understanding for self and others

Rigorous learning occurs when we personalise and connect learning

This means teachers:

• Know students’ context, cultures and relate this to learning
• Determine learners’ needs and plan learning based on these
• Use contemporary ICTs
• Design learning experiences that are of personal, local, national and global significance
• Create opportunities for students to assess their own and others’ performance in real context against agreed standards
• Encourage use of a range of media for communicating learning
  Communicate learning programs, student progress and outcomes to parents/caregivers
• Build connections with the local/wider community into the learning process

Rigorous learning occurs when we understand how we and others learn

This means teachers:

• See themselves as lifelong learners and display passion for learning
• Continue to improve teaching skills through engagement in ongoing Performance Development that is based on current learning theory and best practice
• Critically reflect on their own practice and seek feedback

Mount Compass Area School leaders commit to:

• Leading with professional expectations that demand excellence
• Creating the ideal environment for staff to perform at their optimum
• Implementing professional conversations and staff reflections that are data driven
• Articulating feedback to ensure continuous improvement
• Fostering a scope and vision for the future

INTEGRITY: doing the right thing even when no-one is watching

RESPECT: appreciate ourselves, others, our school and its community

KINDNESS: to make others feel happy and valued