NESA-Endorsed Courses
High Impact Teachers provides NESA-endorsed courses for teachers and leaders across NSW. Our educational consultants support teachers and leaders to:
  • Employ data-informed teaching strategies.
  • Understand how to compose and use evidence-based developmental rubrics
  • Learn how to analyse Guttman charts using ZoneFinder 1.0
  • Differentiate learning activities by targeting teaching at each student's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

Leading-Edge Assessment Analytics Software

  • High Impact Teachers provides exclusive access to an innovative, leading-edge application that automates the analysis and interpretation of Guttman Charts. Research suggests that learning is most likely to occur when students are taught in their Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). 
  • Using developmental rubrics to teach students just outside their learning comfort zone (ZPD) enables students to develop the necessary skills to meet all desired learning outcomes. Professor Patrick Griffin and the team at the Assessment Research Centre from the University of Melbourne have published a process which enables teachers to manually create Guttman charts using Excel to locate students’ ZPD.
  • ​​ZoneFinder 1.0 has taken this process to the next level by automating these largely manual functions which involve creating and analysing Guttman charts. This analysis enables teachers to identify students’ Zones of Actual Development (ZAD) and what they are ready to learn next (ZPD). With ZoneFinder 1.0, determining the ZPD for students is as easy as clicking a button. Learner readiness reports are also seamlessly generated which allows educators to differentiate their work to target their teaching at each student's point of readiness to learn.

​School workshops

Our qualified and experienced educational consultants conduct in-house workshops for schools. This service is an extension of the PD courses offered by High Impact Teachers and allows schools to have an expert deliver PD courses tailored to the needs of the teachers in a specific school. Based on each school’s needs, workshops vary in duration from one-day to multiple workshops.