Virtual Learning Network

Principals participate actively in school wide and cluster wide PD opportunities

Principals collaboratively set  direction within which the facilitators/lead teachers operate

The Principals support, communicate with and collaborate with the facilitators/lead teachers

Principals facilitate the identification by teaching and other staff of their needs in relation to elearning and its integration in practice

Professional development opportunities planned each term for each teaching member of staff

Principals’ performance management agreements and teachers appraisal goals include a component related to this programme as relevant

Principals keep the Boards of Trustees informed and involved.

Principals ensure that the goals of this programme are reflected in the school’s strategic plans.

• Teachers are engaged in a teaching as inquiry process, consistent with BES and the Registered Teacher Criteria
• An inquiry learning with thinking skills entwined approach is evident in classrooms
• Structural/staffing and financial planning supports the infrastructure necessary to the sustainability of this project
• Principals’ involvement in professional development is recorded appropriately
• Milestones 5 and 6 identify PD events in cluster schools each term which are inclusive of all teaching staff
• Principals/Lead Teachers model e learning

Tools to provide evidence will include a range of, but not be limited to strategic plans, observations, minutes of meetings, reflection placed on the cluster wiki, reports to BOTs, reflective journals, films, photo stories