Referencing Professional Learning to the Standards
Referencing to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
Each professional learning activity must be referenced to at least one of the APST. It is anticipated that these activities will include a range of APST, however it is not compulsory to cover all seven APST across the 100 hours of professional learning per five-year term of registration.
You will need to briefly describe, in your own words, how each recorded learning activity links to one or more of the APST. This description should clearly demonstrate to a reader how the activity was a meaningful learning opportunity that supports your professional growth as a teacher in the selected APST.
The individual Focus Area Descriptors under each of the APST may help you to work out where a learning activity best fits. Do not list the focus areas in your professional learning summary record. For recording purposes, select only the most relevant APST as this will assist you to briefly explain the connection in your own words.
Examples of professional learning records
The example records below are for illustration purposes only and do not reflect the real names of presenters/authors.
Face-to-Face Learning
Title and type of professional learning: Student Wellbeing Workshop - Joy Hocking
Starting date: 22/01/2021
Completion date: 22/01/2021
Total hours: 5 hours
Evidence held: Certificate, handouts with my own notes.
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
This workshop increased my awareness of the factors that influence students’ wellbeing and how this can affect their engagement at school. I learned strategies that will help me foster a more supportive learning environment that promotes resilience, confidence, and healthy relationships.
Standards:
1. Know students and how they learn.
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
Title and type of professional learning: First Aid Training
Starting date: 13/03/2020
Completion date: 13/03/2020
Total hours: 7.5 hours
Evidence held: Certificate
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
This training refreshed my knowledge so that I can effectively care for children in need of first aid.
Standards:
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
Study
Title and type of professional learning: Developing a Play Curriculum – module as part of a degree course
Starting date: 01/03/2020
Completion date: 30/06/2020
Total hours: 15 hours
Evidence held: Annotated lecture notes in learning journal, unofficial academic transcript.
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
This topic unit developed my understanding of the importance of play in the early learning environment by critically analysing and evaluating play programs and research.
Standards:
1. Know students and how they learn.
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.
Title and type of professional learning: Behaviour Management Strategies – series of workshops over 4 weeks
Starting date: 03/06/2020
Completion date: 04/08/2020
Total hours: 8 hours
Evidence held: Certificate and journal notes.
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
The course supports teachers in working with, and meeting the needs of, diverse students in the learning environment. Practical strategies to maintain safe, orderly and inclusive environments through developing understanding of causes, triggers of complex behaviours backed up by research, and preventative strategies.
Standards:
1. Know students and how they learn.
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
Online Learning
Title and type of professional learning: Responding to Abuse and Neglect: Education and Care update
Starting date: 23/04/2020
Completion date: 23/04/2020
Total hours: 3 hours
Evidence held: Certificate
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
This training assisted me in understanding my professional and legal responsibilities as a mandated notifier, and in supporting children's safety and wellbeing in my learning environment.
Standards:
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community.
Title and type of professional learning: Webinar - Assessment and Reporting in Early Childhood - Presenter, Karyl Collins
Starting date: 08/02/2021
Completion date: 08/02/2021
Total hours: 2 hours
Evidence held: Receipt, my own notes.
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
The webinar included useful discussions of techniques and strategies to use in assessing and reporting on children's learning in the pre-writing stage.
Standards:
5. Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning.
Title and type of professional learning: Supervising Pre-Service Teaching - Online Modules
Starting date: 13/01/2021
Completion date: 13/01/2021
Total hours: 2 hours
Evidence held: Certificate, my own notes.
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
This interactive and self-directed online professional learning program enhanced my knowledge, skills and confidence to effectively supervise a pre-service teacher who was coming into my classroom
Standards:
6. Engage in professional learning.
7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community.
Research
Title and type of professional learning: Reading – Emotional Intelligence by Roger West
Starting date: 01/07/2020
Completion date: 04/07/2020
Total hours: 5 hours
Evidence held: My notes and reflections from the reading over several nights.
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
The reading of this text and the discussion that flowed from this resource, at both a personal level and from a management level, deepened my understanding of building essential relationship strategies in my leadership role.
Standards:
6. Engage in professional learning.
7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community.
Title and type of professional learning: Positive Psychology Journals – various authors
Starting date: 01/10/2020
Completion date: 28/10/2020
Total hours: 7 hours
Evidence held: Notes and summary comments recorded in learning log.
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
I learnt about positive psychology and how I can extend this practice to my classroom, to enhance the wellbeing of students.
Standards:
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
Communities of Practice
Title and type of professional learning: Local Area Mathematics Teachers Partnership session
Starting date: 15/08/2020
Completion date: 15/08/2020
Total hours: 1.5 hours
Evidence held: My own notes, attendance record.
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
During this session one of the teachers in the partnership shared a range of games and apps for developing students’ understanding of probability and statistics and explained how they were effectively integrated into a teaching program.
Standards:
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.
Title and type of professional learning: Cluster Group Project – Investigating the Effectiveness of iPad programs
Starting date: 25/07/2020
Completion date: 31/10/2020
Total hours: 12 hours
Evidence held: Research Report
How does the learning connect to the Standards?
This project researched the use of iPads, programs delivered by sites, (i.e. bring your own device/school purchased) applications used as learning resources, costs, significant and relevant other associated issues, to inform best practice across a cluster of schools/sites.
Standards:
7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community.
Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions and other pages in the Professional Learning menu for further information.