The Academy Fellowships Model
The Academy Fellowships Model represents a transformative approach to teacher professional learning, focusing on empowering teachers as agents of change by:
- deepening their professional expertise, and
- nurturing their capability to drive evidence-informed school improvement.
Support levers
Fellowships are enabled through key levers or shared contributions from the Academy, the teacher fellow and their school, which create the conditions for powerful learning and impact. The support levers are:
- Engagement with experts and mentors: through formal engagement in professional learning and direct support from a fellowship advisor.
- Enabling school relationships and structures: schools provide supportive relationships, structures and environments that enable teacher agency and professional learning.
- Fellowship Learning Communities (FLCs): teacher fellows engage and collaborate in learning communities to support their professional growth.
- Funding to support scholarship: the Academy provides schools with funding to support teacher fellows’ learning, work, and influence.
- Evidence-informed and self-directed learning: teacher fellows direct their own professional learning by carrying out an impact project embedded in their school context
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Domains of action
Teacher fellows cultivate agency and expertise through the following domains of action, aligned with the Academy’s Fellowships Model:
- Vision: Develop a vision for alternative futures in practice, which is driven by a desire to make a difference to the quality of teaching and learning.
- Innovation: Explore, design, implement and evaluate approaches or interventions that enhance teaching, learning or student engagement.
- Inquiry: Engage in evidence-informed, practitioner-led inquiry to investigate professional challenges in context.
- Leadership: Exercise leadership by building collaborative networks that enhance professional expertise within and across schools.
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