The Victorian Teaching and Learning Model Education

and Training

Curriculum planning Building practice

The Framework and assessment excellence

for Improving A Vision for

Student Victorian Teaching and Learning Model (VTLM)
Evidence-based high
Excellence in
teaching Evaluating impact Learning helps
Outcomes (FISO) impact teaching
strategies and learning
on learning

create a unified
helps schools lift Vision for Learning
Student set of values and
student outcomes achievement,
engagement All students are empowered to learn and achieve, experiencing high quality teaching practice and the best
beliefs to drive a
and wellbeing Parents and carers

and build system Empowering students

and building school pride
Positive
climate for
learning
Community
engagement
in learning
as partners

Global citizenship
conditions for learning which equip them with the knowledge, skills and dispositions for lifelong learning and
shaping the world around them. high performance
capability. Health and wellbeing
Networks with schools,
services and agencies learning culture.
Setting expectations Professional
and promoting inclusion leadership
Building
Intellectual
engagement and
self awareness
communities
Practice Principles for Excellence in Teaching and Learning*
Building leadership Vision values
teams and culture 1. High 2. A supportive 3. Student 4. Curriculum 5. Deep learning 6. Rigorous 7. Evidence- 8. Global 9. Partnerships
expectations for and productive voice, agency planning and challenges assessment based citizenship with parents
Instructional Strategic every student learning and leadership implementation students to practices and strategies drive is fostered and carers
and shared resource
leadership management promote environment empower engages and construct and feedback inform professional through real enhance
intellectual promotes students and challenges all apply new teaching and practice world contexts student
engagement
and self-
inclusion and
collaboration.
build school
pride.
students. knowledge. learning. improvement. for learning. learning.
The Practice
awareness.
Principles are
nine signature
pedagogies which
Pedagogical Model
make the difference
in improving student
achievement and
Engage Explore Explain Elaborate Evaluate
motivation.

The Pedagogical
Model describes what High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS)
effective teaching The HITS are
looks like in the ten instructional
classroom and helps 1. Setting 2. Structuring 3. Explicit 4. Worked 5. Collaborative 6. Multiple 7. Questioning 8. Feedback 9. Metacognitive 10. Differentiated practices that
teachers apply the Goals Lessons Teaching Examples Learning Exposures Strategies Teaching
reliably increase
Practice Principles. student learning
wherever they are
applied.

* The Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) is a resource for primary school teachers. Abilities Based Learning and Education Support (ABLES) is a
resource for teachers of students with additional learning needs whose achievement is described in the Victorian Curriculum Towards Foundation, levels A to D.