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__ **Learning and Teaching at Barvel Central School

Our School Policy** __ 1. Introduction/Vision 1.1 At Barvel Central School strongly believe consistency is the key to success. Our Learning and Teaching Policy ensures that all children and adolescents at our school achieve their personal best in an effective learning environment. 1.2 Rationale: Our teaching and learning policy...

2. Purpose, Aims and Objectives/Mission 2.1 Our Teaching and Learning Policy aims to improve student outcomes through quality teaching practices that encourage independent learners who accept responsibility for their own learning. 2.2 We believe learners learn best in positive learning environments, that implement a consistent, whole school approach, catering for all students from Prep to Year 12. 2.3 Through our teaching we aim to:

3. Implementation: 3.1 The Teaching and Learning approaches are based on constructivist teaching and learning. 3.2 We believe children and adolescents should have a variety of constructivist learning experiences because: 3.2 We encourage learning opportunities and student involvement across all year levels. Children and adolescents benefit from this because:

4. Teaching Practices and Planning 4.1 All teachers educate in line with the six Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT) 4.2 Learning programs are comprehensively planned across all Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) domains. 4.3 Our teaching is based upon the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and soon to be National Curriculum Framework...

(Our School Ethos, Meaning: Incorporate Productive Pedagogies into Section 3)

5. Effective Learning 5.1 We believe children and adolescents learn best when 5.2 Effective learning results in:- 5.3 We encourage children and adolescents to...

6. Effective Teaching 6.1 Effective learning only comes about from effective teaching. When teaching we... We believe for effective teaching to take place, there are a number of ingredients that are needed. They are listed below: 6.2 We... 6.3 We ensure... 6.4 All our teachers... 6.5 We...

7. The Learning Environment 7.1 The learning environment should ensure that the children have the opportunity to learn in different ways, including: 7.2 Learning takes place in an environment which is: 7.3 Our classrooms are... They are effective learning environments because... 7.4 Because children and adolescence learn best in effective learning environments, there will be evidence in the classroom of: 7.4 We believe in enhancing the physical environment of each classroom in order to create a child-centred environment for learning.

8. Routines and Rules: Routines and rules in the classroom contribute to a healthy learning environment. To be effective they should be: 8.1 All rules should result in the children knowing the boundaries of behaviour and should be set within the terms of the Behaviour policy.

8.2 Achievement:
 * verbal or written praise
 * displays of work
 * the awarding of house points

9. Evaluation 9.1 We believe assessment and evaluation is an important element of teaching and learning 9.2 Assessment and evaluation is important because:

10. Roles 10.1 We believe that students, teachers, parents/guardians and the school community have a fundamental role to play in helping children to learn. This is important because: 10.2 Role of students 10.3 Role of teachers 10.4 Role of parents/guardians 10.5 Role of the community

11. Monitoring and Review: 11.1 We are aware of the need to review the school teaching and learning policy regularly due to... 11.2 This policy shall be reviewed by the Essential Learnings Committee by December 2011 or prior if deemed necessary.

12. Supportive and Related Documents relevant to our School Policy include:
 * VELS
 * PoLT