Monash school review

The Faculty of Education, under contract to the Department of Education Victoria (DE&T), undertakes external reviews of Victorian Primary and Secondary Government schools. DE&T is committed to continuous improvement in the quality of education provided in schools and to ensuring high levels of student achievement. As part of DE&T's school accountability processes, the Monash Faculty of Education School Review team undertake independent reviews that aim to identify the achievements of the school, issues emerging from the information, recommendations for improvement and priorities for inclusion in the next school Charter. This external review facilitates agreement between the school and DE&T regarding the directions to be incorporated in the next school Charter.

• Project management plan
• Project roles
• Communication strategy
• Contact us

Project management plan

To allow for sufficient and comprehensive external and internal communication processes, the project manager, Ms Anita Forsyth, and the project advisory group have developed an internal management process. This process is intended to manage the communication strategy and quality assurance for the Monash school review process.

The management structure ensures that information flow, contractual arrangements and key relationships are managed in an efficient and effective manner. The formal structural links to the operations of the project will allow for immediacy of information distribution, ongoing feedback and continuous improvement to all aspects of the Monash review process.

Project roles

Project advisory group

The Project Advisory Group provides advice on and monitors the Monash school review process. It makes recommendations to the project manager about such matters as effective information distribution and communications strategies and quality assurance. Membership of the group includes Dr. Deborah Corrigan, Mr Tony Ross, Ms Sarah Newton and Ms Anita Forsyth. The group is convened and coordinated by the project manager. The executive officer is Ms Jean de Mel.

Project manager

The project manager is responsible for ensuring that the operations, schedules, reports and deliverables of the project are implemented within budget and on time. The project manager coordinates the communication strategy between DET and the Monash school review team.

• There are regular meetings for all members of the Monash review team (see meeting schedule below) to discuss developments in the school review process program and broader accountability framework and to facilitate professional exchange of experiences and information.
• There are 2 moderation meetings each year (see meeting schedule) in order to review the quality of Review Reports and consider feedback from DET.
• The advisory group meets regularly.
• A mentoring system is in place.

Communication strategy

Contact us

Project manager
(03) 9905 2824

Executive officer
(03) 9905 9501

http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/standards/account/assess.htm

This website covers:

• 2004 School Self Assessment using the School Level Report
• Guidelines for School Self Assessment
• School Self Assessment Templates
• School Review Training Presentation
• External Review
• External review Report Templates
• Online Forms

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