Professional learning
To raise the achievement of boys in your school, build the teachers' capability to meet your boys' needs.
Research is clear – effective teaching makes the biggest in-school difference to student achievement. It also identifies a positive relationship between ongoing professional learning and effective teaching.
Professional learning to raise the engagement and achievement of boys in your school is about engaging in professional discussions and using evidence to challenge and inform your teaching practice.
It can be supported by:
- seeing examples of others engaging in professional learning to engage boys in learning
- using learning materials as a basis for discussions
- creating examples of evidence
- sharing evidence about effective teaching strategies to provide for the diverse learning needs of boys in your school.
Botany Downs Secondary College
School story
Botany Downs Secondary College shared its school story of developing and implementing an initiative to promote effective teaching pedagogy for boys.
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To strengthen and improve practice that raises the achievement of boys, develop your own school story using the template below.
Learning story
Botany Downs Secondary College developed and implemented an initiative to promote effective teaching to meet the diverse learning needs of boys in the school.
Download this story as a PDF:
To undertake your own professional learning initiative, create a learning story using the template below.