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 * Principles of Teaching and Learning at the Hamilton and Alexandra College:**


 * The teacher matters and must be passionate about learning and the subject matter.
 * Focused teaching promotes accelerated learning.
 * Clear expectations and continuous feedback activate learning.
 * Good teaching builds on students’ strengths and respects individual’s differences.
 * Good teaching involves modelling what students should learn.
 * A metacognitive approach to instruction can help students learn to take control of their own learning by defining goals and monitoring their progress in achieving them.
 * Effort produces achievement.
 * The learner needs feedback that is explicit about progress. Progress towards the learning outcomes must be clear to both learner and teacher.
 * Good teaching promotes student learning towards clearly stated goals.

The structured lesson plan: __**Other examples:**__ Exemplar site for explaining POLT to teachers from Bendigo Senior [|Secondary]
 * 1) Review the learning outcomes of the previous lesson.
 * 2) Check homework.
 * 3) Communicate clearly the essential learning outcomes: these must be recorded on the board/display and be visible throughout the lesson.
 * 4) The body of the lesson: strategies, scaffolds, modelling, application, feedback.
 * 5) Provide a plan for the conduct of the lesson – a map of where the learner will go/ the main activities.
 * 6) Review and summarise at the end of the lesson (a copy of the main learning outcomes should be retained for the next lesson).
 * 7) Set homework and check that it has been recorded.