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Experienced Teacher

Webinar: Standards and Evidence 17 March 2014

Overview of the webinar

    Guidelines for evidence Requirements for accreditation and evidence Support:     2014 Evidence Guide Forum Information module ISTAA Office Answers to your questions © The Association of Independent Schools of NSW

Guidelines for Evidence

Requirements for accreditation at ET Number of descriptors

To gain accreditation at the level of Experienced Teacher, applicants need to provide

evidence

that clearly demonstrates they have met the 37 Experienced Teacher descriptors. If the principal has signed off 1.4 then those teachers will need to demonstrate 36 descriptors.

Collecting Evidence

Teachers have one year in which to collect evidence, between 2 nd September 2013 and 8 th September 2014.

Requirements for accreditation at ET

 Maximum of five descriptors per item of evidence.

 Head of school report addresses descriptors 7.1, 7.2 and 5.5 (partial).

 Head of school report, testimonial and declaration of authenticity must be signed by principal of school.

 All descriptors requiring items of evidence must be annotated.

Understanding descriptors

Actions and core requirements of a descriptor

Example

ET 5.3: Participate in and apply knowledge from assessment moderation activities to make consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.

Action = verb Core requirement

Outcome of action and core requirement © The Association of Independent Schools of NSW

Some challenging descriptors

Standard 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

2.2

2.4

2.5

3.1

5.1

5.3

5.5

7.1

7.2

1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.2 and 3.1 Designed and implemented by the teacher 1.3 Differentiation based on knowledge of students 1.4 May be signed off by the principal 2.4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories or cultures or languages 2.5 Involves demonstration of literacy or numeracy 5.1 Designed by the teacher 5.3 Involves assessment moderation activities 7.1, 7.2 and 5.5 involve sign off by the principal © The Association of Independent Schools of NSW

Requirements for accreditation at ET Annotations

 An applicant must make explicit the link between item/s of evidence and a descriptor.  An item of evidence must be able to demonstrate the applicant’s practice. Effective annotation of an item of evidence enables an applicant to demonstrate his or her thinking on why and how each item of evidence demonstrates a descriptor.  It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that evidence is effectively annotated to enable the assessor to understand the nature of the evidence, why it has been included and the connection between the item and the descriptor.

The Experienced Teacher Evidence Guide

  This Guide has been written for applicants, principals, supervisors and referees and includes:  a glossary that provides an explanations of common terms a summary of the suggested types of evidence an example of how to demonstrate (indicators) and provide evidence (types of evidence) for one of the Descriptors  information regarding annotating evidence and how much evidence .

ISTAA information module

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ISTAA office support

Questions regarding Experienced Teacher accreditation process, descriptors and evidence.  General questions and answers are to be posted on the forum.  Questions specific to an applicant must be

emailed

to the ISTAA Office. Specific individual answers will be emailed to the applicant and applicant’s supervisor.

 If necessary the ISTAA office will contact the applicant to discuss further or clarify the question. All responses will be sent to the supervisor.

ISTAA forum

Contact Details

Estelle Lewis Director: Teacher Quality Dr Frances Whalan Consultant: Teacher Accreditation Level 12, 99 York Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Phone (02) 9299 2845 Fax (02) 9290 2274 Web: aisnsw.edu.au Email: [email protected] [email protected]