Applications are now open for the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership Teaching Excellence Program (TEP)! 

Through the program, which takes place over 12 months, sees teachers analyse their teaching practice to deepen pedagogical content knowledge in their chosen discipline and across the key discipline areas. They access contemporary, evidence-informed research and apply this learning to their students’ learning needs through a practitioner inquiry approach. The Academy’s TEP teachers will expand their knowledge, capability and confidence to teach even more effectively in their context.

The TEP is open to highly skilled teachers with a minimum of 3 years’ teaching experience from the government, Independent and Catholic sectors, and across all classroom settings.

Supported by a team of Master Teachers-in-Residence, the TEP teachers engage with national and international expert educators in a diverse range of learning events and activities, including Discipline Days, Teaching Excellence Learning Community (TELC) Days, conferences and practitioner inquiry.

The TEP is structured around key disciplines, including: 

• the Arts
• English, including English as an additional language
• health and physical education
• humanities
• languages
• mathematics
• science
• technologies.

Over one school year, teachers are expected to engage with and contribute to:

• orientation session (online, 90 minutes)
• conferences (2 days) in Melbourne
• discipline days (4 days) in Melbourne
• Teaching Excellence Learning Communities (TELCs) days (4 days) at the closest VATL location; Bairnsdale, Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Melbourne, Mildura, Moe, Shepparton.

Applications close Sunday 3 November.