4.+PROFESSIONAL+KNOWLEDGE

4. Accomplished teachers know how students Learn and how to teach them effectively.
4.1   Accomplished teachers understand the personal, social, cultural and economic characteristics and aspirations of learners to personalise learning experiences and opportunities. 4.2   Accomplished teachers use and initiate opportunities for professional discussion about a range of contemporary evidence-based theories and/or practices to inform curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. 4.3   Accomplished teachers use a range of effective practices in language, multiple literacies and numeracies and technologies that underpin learning and assist colleagues to review and reconstruct practices. 4.4   Accomplished teachers plan, implement and review intellectually challenging learning experiences that engage students in using their learning in new or unfamiliar contexts. 4.5   Accomplished teachers design, evaluate and redesign and share programs and teaching sequences based on authentic assessment of learner achievement and engagement.