Evidence for Learning: Accelerate

Accelerate

The Teaching and Learning Toolkit aligned to the Northern Territory’s ​‘Signature Strategies’: Accelerate

The Northern Territory’s ​‘Signature Strategies’ are a small number of high impact strategies across each of the four improvement journeys. The strategies are a guide to begin conversations as a school community and to ensure that efforts and energy are aligned to the actions which will make the most significant difference for our students. This section explores the strategies within the Accelerate improvement journey and their alignment to approaches from the Learning and Teaching Toolkit.

A1 Readiness to Learn

A high priority on student and staff wellbeing with processes in place to provide academic and non-academic support to address individual needs.

A2 Access to and use of data to target teaching

Analyse and summarise data including trends, groupings and outliers.

A3 Students goal and target setting

Collaborative review processes to reflect on ​‘progress towards’ and ​‘achievement of’ goals.

Feedback

Very high impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+6
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A4 Assessment to support learning

Quality culture of feedback to improve student performance including the consistent use of learning intentions and success criteria development alongside the use of learning progressions.

Feedback

Very high impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+6
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Homework

High impact for very low cost based on very limited evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+5
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A5 Clarifying and confirming

Establish processes for building consistency in assessment task design and teacher judgement. 

The Toolkit doesn’t contain approaches which directly relate to this signature strategy.

A6 Peer Observation Cycles

Individualised and onsite for increased focus on the development of quality teaching.

The Toolkit doesn’t contain approaches which directly relate to this signature strategy.

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