Teaching and learning cycle
The teaching and learning cycle is a framework for teachers to use during the design, delivery and assessment of teaching and learning.
Introduction
The teaching and learning cycle has 4 phases:
- analysis for decision making
- planning and programming
- classroom practice
- assessment, feedback and reporting.
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Narrator
The teaching and learning cycle is a framework for teachers to use during the design, delivery and assessment of teaching and learning. The teaching and learning cycle has 4 phases:
- Analysis for decision making
- Planning and programming
- Classroom practice, and
- Assessment, feedback and reporting.
The cycle is flexible with any start and end point. Each phase is supported with ongoing monitoring and assessment of teaching and learning. The phases include 4 guiding questions to consider when planning, implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of teaching and learning:
- Where are my students now?
- What do I want my students to learn?
- How will my students get there? And
- How do I know when my students get there?
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The cycle is flexible with any start and end point. Each phase is supported by ongoing monitoring and assessment of teaching and learning.
The phases include 4 guiding questions to consider when planning, implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of teaching and learning:
- Where are my students now?
- What do I want my students to learn?
- How will my students get there?
- How do I know when my students get there?
Monitoring and assessing
Ongoing assessment and monitoring are embedded throughout all phases of the teaching and learning cycle.
By continuously assessing and monitoring, you can reflect on:
- your own practice to determine impact and be responsive to student needs
- individual student progress to inform future directions for learning and provide ongoing feedback.
Professional learning
The teaching and learning cycle (staff only) is an accredited 1.5-hour e-learning course available in MyPL.
This course looks at each phase of the teaching and learning cycle and helps you to understand the importance of the teaching and learning cycle and how to use it in your teaching practice. It explores the evidence base for this content and why these practices are important for student growth.
Further information
Information is regularly published in Staff noticeboards and through Statewide staffrooms.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please email contactcurriculumreform@det.nsw.edu.au with the subject 'Teaching and learning cycle'.