Melba Teaching and Learning Frameworks
The Melba College Teaching and Learning Framework has been created with input from Melba teaching staff at each step of its development. This framework is visible in every classroom and is intended to be used by teachers as a guide for delivering curriculum across all domain areas.
The framework continues to evolve but in the most general sense, the Engage, Enrich and Empower elements provide the template where learners are immersed in the learning intention and context of a lesson (Engage), they incorporate the skills and concepts in the success criteria and utilise that learning in some way (Enrich) and they reflect on and evaluate their own understanding of the learning undertaken in the lesson (Empower).
At its most detailed, the framework provides a blueprint for teachers to create effective learning outcomes for students and to understand the effectiveness of the learning designs they create. It promotes consistency of good educational practice and supports good teaching.
School Wide Positive Behaviour
What is SWPBS?
SWPBS is “Positive Behaviour Support”: A research based world-wide system for increasing productive learning behaviours and environments.
- A “broad range of systemic and individualised strategies for achieving important social & learning outcomes and preventing problem behaviour with all students” (Sugai & Horner, 2001)
- A school-wide process for developing and explicitly teaching appropriate and positive behaviours
- The redesign of environments, not the redesign of individuals
Click here to visit SWPBS information from the Department of Education
School-Wide Expectations
As part of the PBS process we have identified our three school-wide expectations as:
- Be Respectful
- Be Safe
- Be a Learner
Minor & Major Behaviours
PBS is designed to increase the positive learning behaviours and to create consistency in response to unproductive learning behaviours.
Our next steps at Melba
- Develop a curriculum for teaching school-wide expectations
- Document process and systems
- Trial decision making flowchart with practice scenarios
- Commence staff implementation using decision making flowchart
- Consolidate and streamline our reinforcement processes
Respectful Relationships
We are committed to implementing a whole school approach to Respectful Relationships and delivering the teaching and learning materials in dedicated class time. We use “The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships” resource material which have been designed for teachers in primary and secondary schools to develop students social, emotional and positive relationship skills.