Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Applicants and award winners must demonstrate that they are having a true impact on their students' learning. Many of Friday's award winners were recognised for the improved NAPLAN results of their students, which many cited in their applications. Some of those have improved quite dramatically. Ann Caro, from Lithgow High School, highlighted that her students have improved dramatically in the Higher School Certificate and NAPLAN results. John Cleary, a HALT teacher from Casuarina Street Primary School in the Northern Territory, noted that his students now had one of the nation's best NAPLAN-measured improvements between years 3 and 5 in reading, writing and numeracy. John Goh, from Merrylands East Public School in New South Wales, stressed that the literacy and numeracy results in that school had improved dramatically. And Paul Kenna, of Belle Vue Park Primary School in Victoria, highlighted that the NAPLAN results over the past four years show that the school is now well above growth measures for similar student cohorts. This demonstrates that these teachers are using measures and tools to assess the success in their classrooms.