Reflection on Practice Tool

Below are your selected Descriptors for the Professional Knowledge Domain and their career stages.
If you wish to view the features of practice associated with a particular Descriptor, select the circle in the right hand corner.
The features of practice will appear on the right hand side of the speadsheet, below the pie-chart.

1 Know students and how they learn

2 Know the content and how to teach it

1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of

students

2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area

Graduate - Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of physical, social and intellectual

development and characteristics of students and how these may effect learning.

Graduate - Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concepts, substance and

structure of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area.

Professional Knowledge Domain

Standards 1 and 2

PROFICIENT
25%

1.2 Understand how students learn

2.2 Content selection and organisation

Graduate - Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of research into how students learn
and the implications for teaching.

Proficient - Organise content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching

programs.
GRADUATE
75%

1.3 Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic

backgrounds

2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting

Graduate - Demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies that are responsive to the

learning strengths and needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and
socioeconomic backgrounds.

Graduate - Use curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge to design

learning sequences and lesson plans.

1.4 Strategies for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

2.4 Understand and respect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to
promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians

Feature of practice 1

Feature of practice 2

Graduate - Demonstrate broad knowledge and understanding of the impact of culture,

cultural identity and linguistic background on the education of students from Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.

Proficient - Provide opportunities for students to develop understanding of and respect for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and languages.

Design teaching sequences using content and strategies to

support the needs and strengths of students from diverse
backgrounds.

Identify how others structure learning to address the

strengths and needs of students from diverse backgrounds.

1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students

across the full range of abilities

2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies

Feature of practice 3

Feature of practice 4

Graduate - Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies for differentiating

teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.

Graduate - Know and understand literacy and numeracy teaching strategies and their
application in teaching areas.

Understand strategies that teachers and schools can use to

address the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage on
educational outcomes and opportunities and student
readiness and willingness to learn.

Design teaching sequences targeting learning area-specific

literacy needs of students from diverse backgrounds.

1.6 Strategies to support full participation of students with disability

2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Graduate - Demonstrate broad knowledge and understanding of legislative requirements

and teaching strategies that support participation and learning of students with disability.

Proficient - Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching
programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful.

GRADUATE

Feature of practice 5

PROFICIENT

HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED

LEAD