Element A - Contextualise the Standards
Element A focuses on building a shared understanding of Ngā Paerewa | Standards within your teaching setting.
Contextualise the Standards
Element A of the professional growth cycle asks that:
Principals and professional leaders will facilitate a common understanding of the Standards or Paerewa in their own context and what meeting and using them in their practice looks like (Not annually but once in place revisit from time to time and with new teachers to the setting).
If you would like to run any of the activities that we ran with our leaders, with your teachers you can find them here. We have uploaded them as a powerpoint file so that you can edit it to use with your teachers as needed.
Naturally occurring evidence
The term naturally occurring evidence has been talked about in relation to the Standards ever since the development of the 2017 Standards. It refers to the evidence of the Standards that comes from everyday teaching practice. The professional growth cycle asks that there is a focus on ‘improving rather than proving’ the Standards. We asked the leaders in our focus group to give us some examples of naturally occurring evidence.
Resources
Examples of Element A
In the past, we have shared what has become known as the Quality Practice Template (QPT). If you would like to use the QPT, you can find a version that has been updated to the 2026 Standards below:
The leaders of our focus group are going to share what Element A looks like with the 2026 Standards, as they create them with their setting. We hope that we have given you enough resources to start the conversation. Please keep coming back to the website as we will upload their examples, as they create them.
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