Deputy Principal (Andrew Healey)
Coffee Club
A reminder that the Coffee Club is up and going for this term. This is a great opportunity to work with peers to establish a safe environment for you to have someone observe a lesson (or part of a lesson). From the current Performance Management agreement; as outlined in the Employee Performance policy and procedures you should use a variety of evidence and as a minimum: data showing impact on student outcomes; information based on direct observation of teaching; and evidence of collaboration with colleagues.
Where information is based on direct observation, this must be done in accordance with the exchange of letters between the Department, the State School Teachers’ Union of WA (SSTUWA) and the Principals’ Federation of Western Australia (PFWA), and includes:
- All teachers are to be observed in the performance management cycle by either a superordinate of their choice or peer of their choice for the purpose of feedback.
The Coffee Club provides that opportunity to meet the requirement of performance management in a safe environment and by tapping into a peer to help. Peer observation of your practice could be a teaching strategy, CMS observation, utilising technology into a lesson or a literacy strategy such as Cornell notes.
Cornell Notes
Speaking of Cornell notes, this is a whole school approach to note taking within every classroom. If you are unsure what this entails please speak to Cathy or Hayley for help. To lift student performance, particularly from a literacy viewpoint, it was identified through the teaching and learning committee a common approach should be used. Cornell notes is the most simplistic method that every teacher can implement into their lessons.
Consent2Go
All queries concerning C2G goes to Adam or myself, not to the front office. With census being later, clean data needs to be provided to C2G and that was not possible until Friday 17 Feb. This data has been sent to C2G and we will have to wait until they have uploaded it into our system.