Continuous Improvement

Aligned to the Learning and Teaching Cycle, we work with schools to ensure teachers have a deep understanding of:

• Planning: What students need to learn as set out in the Victorian Curriculum
• Teaching: Targeted teaching to cater for student variability
• Assessing: Knowing where each student is at in their learning
• Reflecting/reviewing: How well was the curriculum taught? How well did the students learn?

We are committed to developing expert subject content knowledge of the Victorian Curriculum.  In addition, the team’s goal is to deepen teacher understanding of the developmental steps of how students learn as set out in the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority Learning Progressions in Literacy and Numeracy.

Literacy: VCAA Foundational Skills Literacy

Numeracy: VCAA Foundational Skills Numeracy

Using evidence-based teaching strategies, the team fosters collective efficacy within and across schools and delivers differentiated service provision to individual schools.

Workplace Learning

Workplace learning and other initiatives are designed with the relevant education authorities to cater for the diverse vocational needs of senior secondary students.

Policy development, advocacy and representation for all Catholic schools is undertaken in partnership with the Department of Education (DE), Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), the Victorian Registration Qualifications Authority (VRQA), Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and other professional bodies. The goal is to provide specialist pathways and transition advice to secondary schools. This includes information, updates and developments by all education and training administrators.

DOSCEL aims to facilitate best practice and maximise the opportunities for students to experience successful senior secondary outcomes and post-school transitions to further education, training and/or employment.

Learning Adjustment – Inclusive Education

The work of the Learning Adjustment Inclusive Education Team is guided by the Disability Standards for Education (DSE). The DSE enshrine schools’ responsibilities to provide every student with equity of access to enrolment, participation, curriculum and student support services. Students with diverse needs including those with physical, cognitive, social-emotional and sensory disabilities and their families/carers are the focus of our work within the Diocese of Sale.

The role of the Learning Adjustment Inclusive Education team is to build expert teacher practice and whole school approaches to providing excellence in education for every student. Areas of focus include:

• building the capacity of school Learning Adjustment Leaders and teams
• implementation of the CECV Intervention Framework professional development related to the implementation of the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data.

Learning and Teaching – Languages

DOSCEL supports Languages programs in schools and promotes new initiatives through the VCEA Languages in Motion Strategy.

DOSCEL is committed to building teacher capacity through Languages Professional Learning Days and through the Multilingual Language Learning Communities that have been developed in the Sale Diocese: Western, Eastern, South Gippsland and Valley. These clusters provide Languages teachers with opportunities to share practice, implement projects initiated by Professional Learning and maintain their skills in the target language.