Understand the role of external professionals and community representatives in broadening teachers’ professional knowledge and practice.

Standard 7.4

Teachers benefit by participating in professional learning communities and networks and also by engaging with wider community.










A parent representing Tru Energy

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How will I engage with professional teaching networks?

• 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