Learning & Teaching

Learning & Teaching

St Martin de Porres is a student centred school.  We value our students and want them to develop confidence, have a high self-esteem and be responsible for their own learning. We encourage this through the building of authentic and collaborative relationships, contemporary approaches to teaching and learning and open communication between students, families and staff.

We ensure a personalised approach to our student's learning based on their strengths, challenges, interests, talents, experiences and background.  We do this to encourage our students to become independent life-long learners who think creatively, have a love for learning and become responsible citizens.

The Learning and Teaching programs at St Martin de Porres are guided by the Victorian Curriculum.

Learning & Teaching Statement

At St Martin de Porres we believe in meeting the needs of all students and educators through a developmental and contemporary approach to learning and teaching.

We commit to working collaboratively to ensure learning is personalised and explicit by reflecting on our practice and using evidence to plan purposeful experiences.

We ensure learning and teaching evolves from learners' needs and interests and promotes critical and creative thinking.

We aspire to educate the whole child and develop lifelong learners who embrace diversity in an ever-changing world.

Visible learning

St Martin de Porres is a Visible Learning school.

Learning is front and centre for staff and students. In 2018 our school embarked on a supported and strategic three year journey in partnership with Corwin Visible learning Plus.  Called ‘Visible Learning’ this model is the result of the research undertaken by Professor John Hattie to understand what provides the most success in learning. It is evidence based relying on over 68,000 studies and 25 million students.

Visible Learners are students who can:

We aim to implement evidence based, high impact learning and teaching strategies based on to the most important characteristics of learning success.

Maximising learning opportunities by focussing on the that which makes the most difference  and ensuring learners can articulate what they are learning and why they are learning what they are learning. 

We aim to ensure learners know what is needed in a task to make them successful. This is the reason we teach using learning intentions and success criteria.

Families can support their child/ren in this joint enterprise by asking them:

 

SMDP Learning Powers: Building learning power is all about helping students learn how to learn. It involves building and developing skills and habits of mind so that they are better prepared as lifelong learners. 

At St Martin's our six learning powers are: