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DRAFT EVIDENCE GUIDE (as at May 2010) DRAFT EVIDENCE GUIDE (as at May 2010) Introduction This draft Evidence Guide has been developed as a companion document for the Registered Teacher Criteria to help users of the Registered Teacher Criteria to see what the Criteria and Indicators might look like in a teacher’s practice in a range of settings. The Registered Teacher Criteria are designed to be used (as are the current Satisfactory Teacher Dimensions) by teachers in early childhood education settings, in schools, in other approved settings and in both English and Māori medium settings. They are also designed to be used by teachers who have just graduated from an Initial Teacher Education Programme, right through to experienced teachers, professional leaders and teacher educators. The Council brought in a group of teachers from a range of settings to develop the initial material for this guide and we wish to thank those teachers for the time, commitment and energy they gave to the task. Although there has been considerable editing of their material, the fundamental ideas and most of the words in this document come from those practitioners. Purpose of this draft Evidence Guide The purpose of the Evidence Guide, then, is to provide examples of what teachers might show in their practice for each of the Criteria and related Indicators. It has been written in narrative format rather than lists of bullet points because the Reference Group and others did not want this to be seen as a ‘check list’. Not all the examples are appropriate for all teachers in all settings. For the purposes of the 2009 pilot programmes, the original material from the working groups will also be provided to the contractors running the pilot programmes. One of the issues for the Reference Group was whether a single ‘composite’ list of evidence examples would be appropriate for each teaching sector, or whether each sector should receive a list of examples where the wording is specific to