Teaching and Learning School Improvement Framework

Overview

Research is revealing the powerful impact that school leadership teams can have in improving the quality of teaching and learning.  Effective leaders create cultures of high expectations, provide clarity about what teachers are to teach and students are to learn, establish strong professional learning communities and lead ongoing efforts to improve teaching practices.

The Teaching and Learning School Improvement Framework brings together findings from research into the practices of highly effective school leaders. The focus of the Framework is not on everything that effective leaders do, but on those leadership practices that appear to be most directly related to school-wide improvements in teaching and learning.

The Framework was developed initially in collaboration with the Queensland Department of Education and Training and was used as the basis for a teaching and learning ‘audit’ of every government school in that state during the 2010 school year.

The Framework consists of eight interrelated ‘domains’. Each domain identifies an aspect of a school’s day-to-day practices.

1. An explicit improvement agenda
2. Analysis and Discussion of Data
3. A Culture That Promotes Learning
4. Targeted Use of School Resources
5. An Expert Teaching Team
6. Systematic Curriculum Delivery
7. Differentiated Classroom Learning
8. Effective Teaching Practices

Find out more about the use and applications of the Framework click a link below:

• Teaching and Learning Audit
• Committed to Excellence School Improvement Program
• Professional Learning