Highly effective teachers
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Highly effective teachers
Strategic Objective three:
To have highly effective teachers who enact our values
What are our aspirations?
- We have a culture of learning
- Our learners have learning experiences that celebrate their individuality, their diversity and what they bring to their learning
- Our teachers are both qualified teachers and expert practitioners in their field
- Our teachers make student learning their highest priority
- Our teachers are skilled facilitators and coaches of learning - encouraging, supporting, nurturing and challenging learners to build confidence in themselves as learners
- Our teachers use participatory and experiential learning processes to promote learner self discovery, help learners to learn and build learner capability in all settings
- Our teachers promote open expression of diverse opinions while maintaining an atmosphere of integrity, civility and respect
- Our teachers simplify and clarify complex subjects, help students connect learning experiences and facilitate development of self knowledge and insights
- Our teachers regularly provide constructive and objective feedback to learners that enhances their learning
- Our teachers invite constructive learner feedback and continually improve their practice through reflection and professional development
- Our teachers both work in teams and contribute to the success of their teams
- Our teachers accept individual and team responsibility and accountability for achieving excellent learner outcomes
- Our teachers are connected with employers, industries, professions and communities
- Our teachers are at the leading edge of knowledge and innovation in their fields and are engaged in applied research (See R & E strategic framework)
- Our teachers integrate their research and enterprise activities into their teaching (see R & E strategic framework)
- Our teachers model sustainable practice in their teaching nd daily work practices (see SD strategic framework)
- Our teachers are up to date teaching practitioners who continually monitor trends in education, industries and professions, anticipate and lead changes and adapt as required
- Our teachers enact our organisational values and act as sustainable practitioners(See SD strategic framework)
What will we do to achieve our aspirations?
- Support staff to obtain high level teaching qualifications and to maintain competence as teachers
- Promote independent learning through provision of teaching qualifications that use work based learning models and APL
- Provide a comprehensive continuing professional development framework through which all staff are supported to develop their capabiity and personal effectiveness
- Support staff to develop capability as learning facilitators, coaches and assessors
- Provide best practice guidelines for facilitation of engaging and inspiring learning activities
- Provide best practice standards in relation to online, face to face and blended curriculum delivery models
- Support staff to develop their digital literacy to enhance capability to utilise various existing and future digital technologies in learning and teaching processes
- Support staff to maintain currency in their specialist field and connections with relevant industry, profession and communities
- Encourage staff to design and plan opportunities for learners to participate in research and to learn researching skills
- Implement processes for gaining learner feedback and peer feedback on teaching
- Support staff to build capability in online learning, use of OERs and distance delivery
How will we know we have been successful?
- Learners express high levels of satisfaction with teaching and learning processes
- Learner success metrics will be the highest in the country
- Learner engagement metrics are the highest in the sector and compare favourably internationally
- Participation of learners from diverse ethnic backgrounds exceeds their representation in the Otago community
- Staff are highly satisfied with the work environment
- Staff are recognised as leading edge practitioners within their fields of expertise
- Graduates are employed in relevant fields
- Employers, professions and communities express satisfaction with graduate work readiness and capability
- Research activity increases(See R & E strategic framework)
- Staff independently utilise digital technologies in their teaching practice
- Staff are recognised as sustainable practitioners (see SD strategic framework)