It is essential to get the basics right. Improving literacy and numeracy is a continued focus so that students can engage in all aspects of learning. We also need to respond to the individual needs of each student and ensure that every child and young person is supported to achieve their best.
Key highlights include:
- establishing a statewide Reading Centre to provide specialist advice
- creating an Autism Education Hub in partnership with experts
- providing additional guidance officers and mental health coaches.
To learn more about our exciting initiatives and what we have delivered, view the
Advancing education action plan (PDF, 2.2MB) and the
Advancing education 2020 report card (PDF, 2.8MB) or
download the accessible version (DOCX, 109KB).
Our progress
We have made significant progress and built strong foundations for ongoing success by delivering:
- Investing in success by providing resources directly to schools to develop local evidence-based responses
- *Establishing a statewide Reading Centre to provide specialist advice to teachers and parents on how to teach and support reading, including strategies for students with dyslexia
- *Employing specialist coaches in literacy or English as an Additional Language or Dialect to lift the reading outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
- Helping improve the reading of disadvantaged students
- *Creating an Autism Hub in partnership with experts to support teachers and parents across the state with strategies to help students with autism
- Building the capability of teachers to support students with disability
- Providing targeted curriculum resources and professional development for teachers to extend gifted and high-achieving students
- Providing quality practical and adaptable curriculum resources for teachers in the classroom.
- *Promoting resilience and respectful relationship skills by addressing bullying, domestic and family violence, youth suicide, radicalisation and other social issues
- Providing additional guidance officers and mental health coaches focused on student wellbeing
- Responding the wellbeing needs of students in remote and rural schools using telepresence technology
- Using the views of students about wellbeing, mental health and behaviour to inform future practice and policy
- Identifying students at-risk of disengagement early to target prevention strategies more effectively
- *Reconnecting disengaged or at-risk students to learning through better tracking of students and providing alternative learning options
- *Supporting alternative education providers to strengthen the quality of education and support for young people
- Developing innovative models through co-design with non-government partners of alternative schooling services
Key: * Aligns to relevant 2017 election commitments and Minister's Charter Letter commitments.
Ideas into action
Improving literacy and numeracy
Targeted teaching, support and monitoring of individual students has resulted in significant gains in foundation literacy and numeracy skills at Mount Isa Central State School.
The school has a strong focus on using data to improve children's skills in literacy and numeracy, and student progress is measured regularly. Data also informs goal setting and feedback processes for students, teachers and parents.
The support for early learners to develop foundation literacy and numeracy skills has resulted in strong gains in the proportion of students achieving at or above the National Minimum standard in Year 3 NAPLAN writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation.