Selection criteria examples for teachers

As a Year 5 teacher, I noticed my class's reading comprehension results were below the school average. I used our standardised reading data to group students by need and introduced daily ten-minute targeted reading sessions. I tracked progress every three weeks and adjusted the groups as students improved. By the end of the year, 80 per cent of my class had moved up at least one band, and our team adopted the approach across Year 5.

My Year 8 class included several students with learning plans and two students new to English. I set clear routines from day one, used visual instructions and built in short partner tasks so every student had a chance to contribute. I met our learning support team each term to adjust plans. Behaviour referrals from my class fell over the year, and three students who had been disengaged completed every assessment task in Term 4.

As Year 3 team leader, I coordinated planning for four teachers across two campuses. Communication with families was inconsistent, so I introduced a shared fortnightly newsletter and a calendar of key dates, and started a short parent information evening each term. Parent attendance at information evenings doubled over the year, and our team's planning meetings now run to a shared agenda.