Report on Australian Professional Standards for Teachers: Standard 4

This report provides an analysis of Standard 4 of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, which focuses on creating and maintaining supportive and safe learning environments. The report is structured around the five focus areas of Standard 4: supporting student participation, managing classroom activities, managing challenging behavior, maintaining student safety, and using ICT safely, responsibly, and ethically. The report defines key concepts such as inclusive education and highlights practical approaches and illustrations of practice for each focus area. Examples of practice include classroom organization, high-impact teaching strategies, setting goals, explicit teaching, behavior management techniques, and the implementation of cyber safety policies. The report also references the Early Years Learning Framework and the Code of Conduct, emphasizing the importance of creating a positive and secure learning environment for all students. The report includes illustrations of practice such as photographs from childcare, schedules, positive behavior posters, and examples of cyber safety policies.

Australian Professional
Standards for Teachers
Name
Institution

Standard 4: Create and Maintain Supportive and Safe
Learning Environments
• Compromise of Five Focus Areas:
• 4.1: Support student participation
• 4.2: Manage classroom activities
• 4.3: Managing challenging behavior
• 4.4: Maintain student safety
• 4.5: Use ICT Safely, responsible and ethically

Focus Area 4.1: Support Students Participation:
• The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (2018) posits that “we need to
support inclusive students’ participation alongside engagement in classroom
activities (Department of Education 2018, p. 16).
• The Department of Education defines the inclusive education as the means which
each school community is valued as well as supported to completely participate,
learn, develop as well as succeed within the inclusive school culture.
• Early Childhood Education:
• The Early Years Learning Framework (2016) posits that inclusion is an active
reaction by early childhood educators to comprehend every child’s family’s
experiences as well as children individual capability (Department of Education
2016, p. 12).

Inclusion supports child’s rights as well as makes sure
that:
• Each child has equitable access to full array of early
childhood and community settings
• Provide environments which support meaningful, positive
relationships as well as friendships with adults and peers
• Every child participate meaningfully while learning,
playing as well as interacting together
• Every child is supported to remain active community
members

Illustration of Practice: Student
Participation

Illustration of Practice:
Photograph from Childcare

Focus area 4.2: Maintain Student Safety
• The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (2018) posits
that we have to be able to demonstrate capacity to organize
classroom activities as well as provide precise directions
(Department of Education 2018, p. 12).
• Organization of physical layout is essential to classroom
management. The physical environment has an influential impact
on behaviors, attitudes, and expectations
• Routines as well as procedures must be precise, practical and
simple.

Illustration of Practice:
• High impact teaching strategies (HITS )
• Setting goals:
• Lessons require clear learning intention with goals which clarify
what success looks like
• Explain what learners need to comprehend
• Explicit Teaching:
• Provide instructions, demonstrate concepts as well as build
learners skills and knowledge (Department of Education 20, p. 18)

Illustration of Practice: (Setting
Goals and Explicit Teaching)

Schedule

Focus Area 4.3: Managing Challenging Behavior
• The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (2018) posit that we
have to demonstrate knowledge of practical approaches to manage the
challenging behaviors (Department of Education 2018, p. 16).
• The student’s right to learn as well as feel safe remains underpinned by
clearly articulated and well-promoted behavior standards (Code of
Conduct)
• Standards of behavior must extend crossways the school community which
include staff, students, parents and caregivers
• The process for setting, promoting, as well as reviewing behavior
standards remains vital for success

Practical approaches to manage
challenging behaviors including:
• The Department of Education (2018) recommends certain
practical approaches to manage challenging behaviors
including:
• Assessing behavior
• Developing behavior support plan
• Engaging supporting services within school community
• Implementing appropriate disciplinary (kind of disciplinary
measure used for challenging behavior)