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 * __[[image:small_8.jpg align="right"]]Week 8__**

Author: Claire Collings 23/06/09

This week's lecture was given by Diane Powell and was on the subject of Performance and Development Culture or How to Survive Accountability in Your First Year of Teaching. It covered what we are accountable for as graduating teachers; Professional Standards, VIT Requirements, Codes of Conduct, Duty of Care and the Principles of Teaching & Learning (POLT). This was a valuable session as it not only highlighted the ongoing professional requirements we have to meet as part of our ongoing accreditation as teachers but it also re-inforced the need for us to be aware and mindful of our identities as teachers and what we can do to further our professional development.
 * __Lecture Summary__**

For this week the readings were weblinks to The Victorian Institute of Teaching at [] and POLT at [] POLT covers 6 main principles involved in effective learning and teaching and the website covers the breakdown of these principles extensively. Each principal helps us as teachers to continully reflect and build on our educational pedagogies.
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__**Reflections**__ My reflections from this lecture are that we as teachers have a continued responsibility to ourselves and others to be accountable for all our actions and we should continually work on becoming the best teachers that we can be by following research, assessing and reflecting on our pedagogical stance.