This module guides participants to initiate and lead changes to the mindsets of staff. They learn about the Victorian PLC approach, the role a leader is expected to play and evaluate and diagnose their current knowledge, mindset, behaviours, and practices.

Module 1: Preparing for PLCs

This module guides participants to lead changes to their school’s structures and processes. They learn how to design PLC structures, timetables and meeting agendas that optimise teacher professional learning.

Module 2: Designing a PLC

This module guides participants to lead changes to curriculum and pedagogy, by implementing an inquiry cycle to build teacher capacity in PLCs. Leaders are expected to support and monitor the work of the PLC at each phase of the FISO Improvement Cycle, ensuring that there is coherence between the cycles of inquiry and the Annual Implementation Plan and School Strategic Plan and that a transfer of knowledge occurs between PLCs.

Module 3: Executing the work of PLCs

This module guides participants to implement and sustain cultural change by monitoring the impact of PLCs at their school and embedding effective practices.

Module 4: Progressing PLCs