Professional learning and development resources

The Academy launched the Teaching Excellence Program earlier this year to build the expertise of highly skilled teachers from government, Catholic and independent schools across Victoria.

The program enhances teaching excellence through a focus on disciplinary knowledge, responsive pedagogy and practitioner inquiries. It offers a unique, dedicated pathway for teachers who want to deepen their knowledge and cross-sector network, refine their practice and enhance their classroom impact.

Upon graduating and join the program's alumni, you will have an opportunity to engage in fellowships to take your learning further.

In Our Classrooms is an online space and regular e-newsletter for teachers to find best practice approaches, evidence-based classroom resources, professional development opportunities and stories that celebrate the education profession.

This is an approach used to foster school improvement where groups of teachers work collaboratively at the school level to improve student outcomes.

​Professional Learning Community (PLC) schools start from a simple idea: students learn more when their teachers work together. It’s a proven way for teachers in schools to increase student learning by creating a culture that is:

1. Focused on continuous improvement by linking the learning needs of students with the professional learning and practice of teachers.
2. Committed to professionalism.
3. Fuelled by collaborative expertise.

The Statewide Vision Resource Centre offers a highly regarded calendar of activities and resources designed to improve skills and knowledge in the field of vision impairment.

The Centre's professional development programs are open to Visiting Teachers, class and subject teachers, integration teachers and aides, family members, students, associated professionals and members of the wider community and provide opportunities to learn about blindness and low vision including educational implications and teaching strategies.

The Victorian Deaf Education Institute (VDEI) offers high quality training and development for teachers, professionals and support staff working with deaf and hard of hearing children. This includes professionals supporting deaf and hard of hearing children with additional needs.

Each year VDEI enables hundreds of professionals, including mainstream teachers, teachers of the deaf, audiologists, speech pathologists, psychologists, and speech and language support staff, the opportunity to build their expertise in providing learning support to the 3000 Victorian school aged children and young people with a hearing loss.

The Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) is a statutory authority for the regulation of the teaching profession in Victoria. VIT run professional development resources and support programs for teachers.

The VET Development Centre provides professional development activities for vocational education and training (VET) staff located in public, private and community training organisations. The Centre’s annual Professional Learning calendar targets current and emerging workforce development needs of the sector in response to changes in the VET landscape.

Two calendars of activities are produced annually, consisting of over 90 professional development workshops, seminars and webinars to ensure responsiveness to government priorities and stakeholder feedback.

Master's places are available for teachers to complete postgraduate study in inclusive education to continue supporting students of all abilities.