Teaching and Learning - Coaching

The Teaching and Learning Program at Officer Secondary College is grounded in evidence-based best practices, with a commitment to continual improvement.  Our Professional Learning Framework provides development opportunities through coaching, observations, learning walks, the PLC structure and the INSPIRE Instructional Model. 

PLC teams

Staff collaborate in KLD-based PLC groups (Terms 2-3) to test learning strategies using PEER goals and the monitoring of student data. 

At the start of each term, differentiated PL sessions are available, and the PLC cycle concludes with a celebration session, where staff share artefacts such as checklists, Faces on the Data worksheets, scaffolds, or worked examples.  Read more here...

Coaching

At Officer Secondary College, all staff will engage in a coaching cycle.  The coaching cycles at OSC are based on the best practices from the Impact Cycle (Knight, 2018), Growth Coaching and Responsive coaching (Goodrich, 2024)

Staff select a 1% improvement goal of their own or a whole-school focus area, and are guided through a coaching cycle with their Learning Specialist.  The coaching cycle includes observations, video recording of teacher practice and timely feedback.  

The coaching cycles are recorded in the booklet below, which includes the OSC data-tracking tool, Faces on the Data.  Staff triangulate data from PAT, NAPLAN, and CAT assessments to identify students' learning levels.

Peer observations and Learning Walks

Officer Secondary College believes that all staff deserve feedback on their teaching practice.  Methods of observation will include:

• Learning Walks and Talks by staff groups and/or the Leadership team.  

• Peer observations will occur each semester across the college to build our collective efficacy and teacher capacity.