3. Feedback and Coaching Culture • Peer Coaching: Teachers observe and give structured feedback. • Learning Walks: Focused on one VTLM element at a time. • Professional Conversations: Framed by the question ‘What impact did my teaching have on student learning?’ 4. Grounded in the Science of Teaching and Learning • Effective teaching is built on cognitive science — understanding how the brain learns and retains information through attention, memory, and retrieval. • Learning requires explicit instruction that builds schema in long-term memory and reduces cognitive load for students. • Spaced practice, retrieval practice, and interleaving strengthen retention and transfer of knowledge over time. • Students benefit from dual coding (combining visuals and language) and worked examples to model expert thinking. • High-impact teachers provide frequent, actionable feedback and opportunities for guided practice before independence. • Learning improves when students know the purpose of their learning and receive clear success criteria. • Metacognition and self-regulation strategies empower learners to plan, monitor, and evaluate their own progress. • Great teaching blends explicit instruction with gradual release of responsibility — moving from teacher modelling to independent mastery. • Every student thrives when instruction is sequenced, cumulative, and connected across lessons and year levels.
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