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Professional collaboration allows best practice to be identified and shared across classrooms. Effective collaboration explicitly aims to improve teacher practices and student outcomes.
Effective models of collaborative practices between EAL/D specialist teachers and classroom teachers are detailed in the EAL/D advice for schools (PDF 5.39 MB), while the EAL/D School Evaluation Framework (PDF 392 KB) allows schools to monitor their EAL/D collaborative practice.