The document outlines competencies expected of beginning teachers in 8 areas: planning for learning, understanding and responding to students, using and developing knowledge, teaching, monitoring, assessing and evaluating, creating a learning environment, communicating and working with others, and understanding and meeting professional responsibilities. For each competency area, the document lists elements that describe the knowledge and skills teachers should demonstrate.

1. Competencies
for beginning
teachers
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3. Competencies
 It is so simple to assume that:
 a teacher is a teacher is a teacher, and
 provided that the teacher has a minimum level
of competence it is the curriculum that makes a
difference in student’s learning
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4. Competencies
 Attempts are made to make curriculum
- teacher-proof
 Curriculum is designed to meet the
needs of students, rarely considering
meeting the needs/individual
differences of teachers
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5. Competencies
A point to consider:
 There is little evidence that changing
the curriculum will improve the level of
student outcomes unless there are
significant attempts to change what
teachers do.
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6. Competencies
 What standards should we expect of
our teachers?
 Which pedagogies are most effective
for which teachers?
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7. Competencies
 We could learn much from other
professions:
 how they focus on their practice?
 how they judge the quality of members of
the profession?
 their requirements for maintaining and
upgrading their level of skill
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8. Competencies
The fundamental questions:
 What constitutes an accomplished
teacher?
 Should one size fit all?
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9. Competencies
 What competencies would you expect
a beginning teacher to be able to do?
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10. Competencies
Teachers are capable of the following:
1. Planning for learning
2. Understanding and responding to students
3. Using and developing knowledge
4. Teaching
5. Monitoring, assessing and evaluating
6. Creating a learning environment
7. Communicating and working with others
8. Understanding and meeting professional
responsibilities
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11. Planning for learning
Elements
 Plans purposeful programs
 Planning considers student development
and learning
 Planning matches content, teaching
approaches and learning outcomes
 Plans to meet longer term personal and
school goals.
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12. Understanding and responding
to students
Elements:
 Understanding how students develop
and learn
 Recognises and responds to individual
differences
 Fosters independent and cooperative
learning
 Believes that all students can, and
have the right to, learn.
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13. Using and developing
knowledge
Elements:
 Knows the content and the relationship to
learning
 Understands the relationship between
modes of enquiry and content knowledge
 Uses educational processes appropriate
to the curriculum
 Engages student actively in developing
knowledge.
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14. Teaching
Elements:
 Knows and uses a wide range of
teaching approaches
 Designs teaching programs to motivate
and engage students
 Structures learning tasks effectively
 Demonstrates flexibility and
responsiveness
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15. Monitoring, assessing
and evaluating
Elements:
 Knows and uses a range of
assessment strategies
 Monitors and provides feedback on
student progress
 Reports on student progress to parents
 Reflects on the effectiveness of
teaching and learning programs
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16. Creating a learning
environment
Elements:
 Communicates effectively with students
 Develops positive relationships with
students
 Establishes clear and achievable
expectations for students
 Encourages positive student behaviour
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17. Communicating and
working with others
Elements:
 Responds to role in team responsible
for students’ education
 Works effectively with teachers,
ancillary staff
 Works effectively with parents
 Communicates with school support
staff, the profession and the wider
community
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18. Understanding and meeting
professional responsibilities
Elements:
 Operates from an appropriate ethical position
 Operates within the framework of law and
regulation affecting teachers’ work
 Evaluates teaching to improve the quality of
teaching and learning
 Continually develops professional skills and
capacity
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