Quality in every learning community
Quality Assurance Framework
A practical way of understanding best-practice provision of community languages education.
Why use the Quality Assurance Framework?
The revised Quality Assurance Framework provides teachers, administrators, parents and other school community members with a practical way of understanding best practice provision of community languages education, and a tool for assessing whether the various elements of quality community language schooling are being practised. It also serves as a reference manual to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in community language schools.
The Framework is not intended as a means of assessing an individual or their performance, but as a means to enhance teaching and learning practices across school communities. Using the Framework can also demonstrate that a quality approach is currently being adopted by the school.
Why the QAF matters
The QAF dimensions
The Quality Assurance Framework consists of eight interrelated dimensions that combine to provide an overview of best practice in teaching and learning, and in school operation and management, within the community languages sector in Australia.
The Framework reflects current research on effective school practices, as well as what is known about the promotion of mother tongue maintenance and cultural understanding. It draws on the practical experience of teachers and principals in community language schools across Australia, and is based on the belief that all of these dimensions need to be addressed to achieve quality in a school or a program.
About the archive links
Archive collection: the following links refer to documents on CLA’s previous website. Some source files may be unavailable. Contact CLA for the original document or a current version.