A NEW investment program enabling some of the best local public primary school teachers to mentor and coach other teachers was launched last week.
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The $224 million Quality Teaching, Successful Students package will begin this term with Glen Innes Public School and Red Range Public School benefiting from the initiative.
Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall has welcomed the launch of the program and said it will improve the results of students throughout the region.
“It’s great to see many of our local schools benefit from this key commitment to improving the skills of our local teachers,” he said.
With this initiative we are not just talking development, this is showing true commitment to value add every year as the program continues
- Red Range Public School, Pamela Murphy
“This investment will help students achieve better results and reach their full potential.”
“This initiative, made possible by NSW signing up to the Gonski agreement, gives schools an opportunity to use their best, most experienced teachers to improve teaching and learning in every classroom.”
The program will enable selected teachers at the schools to mentor and coach other teachers, observe teachers in their classrooms and demonstrate effective teaching strategies, monitor student performance data across the school to ensure teachers are focused on areas of need and collaborate within their school and with colleagues in other schools.
In line with the Local Schools, Local Decisions education reform, principals will determine how to use this new staffing resource.
Red Range Public School Principal Pam Murphy said that anything that supports the development of teaching staff will be of benefit in the class room.
“With this initiative we are not just talking development, this is showing true commitment to value add every year as the program continues,” she said.
“The Quality Teaching, Successful Students initiative will provide an additional staffing resource allocation to improve the quality of teaching in all primary classrooms.
“This initiative is being delivered to ensure that all primary students benefit from high quality teaching and learning practices that better meet the full range of student needs.”
Mrs Murphy added that the program will provide constructive feedback to individual teachers.
“We will also establish mentoring and coaching practices in the school to provide constructive feedback on lesson delivery, programming, assessment and classroom management,” she said.
