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Melbourne High School English Teachers can supplement
the information contained in this Site by accessing their English
Faculty Home Page on the School's Intranet: MHS Connect. Documents include:
MHS's English Faculty staff are committed
to the principles and practices of essential English and Literacy
teaching as documented in the Professional
Standards for English Teachers, and to the Melbourne High School Teaching
and Learning Policy with its focus on the learner and his particular
learning style, and how learning is as an active, individual process
of constructing and building meaning. In particular, the English
staff at Melbourne High School recognise the structuring of lessons
that address an individual student's characteristics, needs, abilities
and interests through the myriad of ways in which are catered for through differential teaching.
Professional Standards
MHS English staff support the depth and range of accomplished English
and Literacy teaching as documented in the Professional Standards
provided by STELLA (Standards for Teachers of English Language and
Literacy in Australia). The Standards have been developed by teacher
members of AATE and ALEA around Australia and are supported by national
and state ETA Councils in all states and territories.
The standards are based on two principles:
- Professional standards only have validity when grounded in teachers'
own knowledge, experience, skills and values.
- Teachers' knowledge, experience, skills and values are, in important
respects, discipline-specific. For example, the depth of knowledge
and the range of skills an English or Literacy teacher needs in
order to teach well are different from the knowledge and skills
required to teach Physics or Physical Education.
The English teachers at MHS attempt to capture the depth and range
of accomplished English and Literacy teaching. |
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