AISV Welcomes Rewarding Teaching Excellence Research

AISV, Media Release, 25 August 2009

Ms Michelle Green, the Chief Executive of the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV), has welcomed the Victorian Government’s announcement that it is investigating the best model for rewarding teaching excellence.

The Victorian Education Minister, Ms Bronwyn Pike, has announced that two teacher pay-bonus models will be piloted at up to 75 Victorian government primary and secondary schools in 2010.

AISV has already established a research program that is underway in six independent schools. The Rewarding High Quality Teaching Program aims to acknowledge and reward quality teachers who demonstrate a direct impact on improving student learning.

The objective is to find out how good teachers teach so that those who are less effective can learn what works. This will allow teachers to improve so that they can deliver the best educational experience and outcome.

The AISV pilot focuses on professional learning, professional standards, learning and school communities and improvement in student learning. It promises to be a program that could be implemented in many school systems.

‘Excellent teaching is a major factor in lifting student achievement. Better salaries for effective teachers are likely to be the best way of improving student learning and certainly more cost-effective than many other strategies.

‘Developing and implementing ways of valuing high quality teachers is critical to raising the profile of excellent teachers. In addition to providing students with a better education, this will also improve career paths and encouraging the best graduates into teaching,’ Ms Green says.

 

 

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