Understand the role of external professionals and community representatives in broadening teachers’ professional knowledge and practice.
Standard 7.4
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Teachers benefit by participating in professional learning communities and networks and also by engaging with wider community.
A parent representing Tru Energy
A parent representing Tru Energy
How will I engage with professional teaching networks?
How will I engage with the community?
- Participate in professional development programs
- Form a small learning group of peers
- Join a number of teaching associations
- Subscribe to various teaching and learning journals
- Proactively engage with teaching professionals
- Collaborate with other schools if the opportunity arises
How will I engage with the community?
- Listen to and get to know the local community, and actively seek out community strengths
- Use these strengths to enrich the class learning program
- Develop authentic, inclusive and respectful relationships with the community
- Blur the boundaries between home and school to create more natural learning contexts
- Invite parents and carers to speak to the class
- Regularly expose parents/carers to relevant educational research, ideas and information
- Learn about the wider community through excursions and fieldtrips
- Use ICT to engage with global and online communities
- Participate in local sporting groups