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Structure flexible and innovative learning experiences for individuals and groups

Descriptor | Statements | Underpinning knowledge and skills

Descriptor

This standard covers the requirements for establishing learning goals, for ensuring that learning experiences take account of these goals as well as the learning needs, preferences and styles of students, and for providing flexible and innovative learning experiences for students.

Statements

1.1	Establish learning goals based on relevant course documentation, curriculum frameworks and school policy.
1.2	Analyse and incorporate information about students in the design of learning experiences.
1.3	Plan for and support students with their individual learning needs.
1.4	Plan and organise the delivery of learning experiences.
1.5	Review and evaluate learning experiences.

Further details of statements and related indicators can be found in the Professional Standards for Teachers: Guidelines for Professional Practice (new window) 495k

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Underpinning knowledge and skills

This aspect of professional practice is informed by a knowledge and understanding of:

policies and documents developed by Education Queensland (including Department of Education Manual), and the school, on implementing curriculum frameworks, syllabuses and program documents;
relevant curriculum frameworks, syllabuses and program documents;
an outcomes approach to education;
pedagogical theories;
content area and transdisciplinary knowledge;
child and adolescent development theories;
principles of group learning dynamics, including cultural, gender and peer-group implications;
learning styles, abilities and disabilities of students;
methods of identifying students' learning needs;
the purpose and use of assessment data in identifying students' talents and abilities and diagnosing students' needs, learning difficulties and learning disabilities.

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