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  • Learning and Teaching

    The Learning and Teaching Team leads and supports schools to promote expert teacher practice. The team aims to build teacher capacity to address student variability through targeted teaching, ensuring an accelerated rate of progress for every student. 

    The work of the Learning and Teaching team is aligned to the Learning and Teaching Cycle. The team works with schools to ensure teachers have a deep understanding of: 

    • Planning: What students need to learn as set out in the Victorian Curriculum  
    • Teaching: Targeted teaching to cater for student variability 
    • Assessing: Knowing where each student is at in their learning 
    • Reflecting/reviewing: How well was the curriculum taught? How well did the students learn? 

    The team endeavours to develop expert subject content knowledge of the Victorian Curriculum.  In addition, the team’s goal is to deepen teacher understanding of the developmental steps of how students learn as set out in the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority Learning Progressions in Literacy and Numeracy.  

    In the team’s work with schools the team promotes expert teacher practice through the implementation of evidence based teaching strategies. The team fosters collective efficacy within and across Diocesan schools and delivers differentiated service provision to individual schools.  

    Learning and Teaching – Secondary Pathways 

    The Catholic Education Office – Diocese of Sale (CEOSale) works in conjunction with the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria Ltd (CECV) to provide planning, implementation, review and support for senior pathways and transition options for students undertaking:  

    • Vocational Education and Training (VET)  
    • Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) 
    • School Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships (SBATs) 
    • Careers 
    • Workplace learning and other initiatives designed to cater for the diverse vocational needs of senior secondary students. 

    Policy development, advocacy and representation for all Catholic schools is undertaken in partnership with the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), the Victorian Registration Qualifications Authority (VRQA), Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and other professional bodies in providing specialist pathways and transition advice to secondary schools, including information, updates and developments by all education and training administrators.