Teachers at Port Dalrymple School are involved in professional learning and collaborative planning every Monday and Tuesday afterschool. The professional learning focuses on building teachers understanding of evidenced based teaching practice, explicit instruction and Literacy. One of the school priorities is ‘Quality Teaching and Literacy specifically reading.  Port Dalrymple has targets for improvement which focus on student learning outcomes and teachers using a range of data sources to measure student achievement over time.

At Port Dalrymple School teachers have co-constructed an ‘Explicit Instructional Model’ which reflects evidence-based teaching practices and teaching pedagogies which have the greatest impact on the student learning.  In every class from Kinder to Year 12 teachers will be discussing with students the Learning Intentions, Success Criteria and will provide students with feedback and collaborative learning opportunities.  In each lesson we want students to be able to answer three questions –

What am I learning today? 

Why am I learning this?

How will I know I have learned it?