The School Leader component of the Prism Quality Teacher Program provides comprehensive processes and useful tools that assist and support school leaders to:
- Map teachers’ perceived areas of strength and weakness using the Professional Performance Graph and then identify areas for school development
- Engage and support teachers to identify, reflect on and evaluate assumptions and knowledge, current practice and capabilities and their effects on student learning in relation to the four facets of the Quality Teacher
- Provide school-based data detailing focus areas teachers perceive as needing further development
- Record and review teacher‘s professional performance goals and Professional Learning Plans for their continuing learning and development as Quality Teachers
- Engage in reflective dialogue with teachers about quality teaching using the Quality Teacher framework
- Observe classroom practice and provide constructive feedback to teachers
- Promote shared leadership through mentoring and coaching
- Promote a school culture of collaboration and teacher inquiry
- Motivate and support teachers to reflectively engage in Quality Teacher Inquiry in a professional learning community
- Record and share teacher inquiry focus areas and outcomes
- Assist teachers to gather and document evidence of their continuing professional learning and development using a Professional Learning Portfolio and to align this development with Professional Standards.
Process
1. The School Leader can use evidence from the Professional Performance Graphs to assist their identification of Whole School Development Needs template.
2. The School Leader can use the Professional Learning Plans of each teacher to inform the development of the Whole School Learning Plan.
3. The specific Inquiry Process for each teacher can be used to inform a Whole School Inquiry highlighting specific issues identifies by staff.
4. The Whole School Evidence of Learning template will support the School Leader in gathering evidence of teachers' professional learning.