Dedicated principals, teachers and support staff make the difference to the quality of learning in our schools. We are committed to attracting the right people with the right skills in the right locations, and supporting our education workforce to continually refresh and reinvigorate their practice.
Key highlights include:
- establishing a professional learning centre to strengthen teaching excellence
- putting more teachers in state school classrooms with an extra 2,500 teachers, including 875 above projected growth
- transforming Human Resource management to attract and keep the best people in teaching.
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:
- *Developing initiatives to promote teaching as a profession of choice and creating innovative pathways into teaching
- *Improving the preparation of preservice teachers and mentoring beginning teachers, including those in rural and remote locations
- *Reinvigorating recruitment and teacher transfer processes in state schools
- *Establishing a centre for professional learning and teaching excellence for teachers and school leaders
- Developing professional expertise in teaching by informing professional practice using feedback, coaching and Master Teachers
- *Establishing a new classification system for teachers that rewards their expertise
- *Putting more teachers in state school classrooms with an extra 2500 teachers, including 875 above projected growth
- Providing better support in state schools by reviewing the model used to allocate administration and support staff
In addition, supporting preservice teachers to develop digital planning and assessment skills has commenced and is ongoing.
- Identifying and mentoring emerging leaders including emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders
- *Targeting career pathways and incentives for principals to lead where they are needed most
- *Lifting professional practice through coaching and mentoring
- Implementing new ways of gathering the views of principals to inform policy and practice
- Supporting state school leaders by improved inductions for new and beginning principals
- *Creating working environments that promote health, safety and wellbeing by implementing a strategy focused on supporting all staff to respond to the complex demands of their working lives
- Engaging with staff about their views and implementing strategies that respond to their feedback
Key: * Aligns to relevant 2017 election commitments and Minister's Charter Letter commitments.
Ideas into action
Support for teachers
Online coaching modules are helping to strengthen pedagogical practice and teacher content knowledge at Middlemount Community School.
The How To Teach Reading pilot program with the school's primary and secondary teachers is having a positive impact on improving teacher confidence in teaching reading.
The online module provides a valuable resource for teacher development, particularly in rural and remote locations and is important in supporting graduate teachers to develop their knowledge and skills. Other coaching modules available include how to teach writing, maths and science.