Welcome

A warm welcome is extended to everyone interested in Quality Teaching and Action Learning.

On Friday 17 September 2004 the Australian Government Quality Teacher Program (AGQTP) Quality teaching action learning (QTAL) planning conference was held at The Stamford Sydney Airport Hotel.

This planning conference was designed to provide 109 teachers and almost 50 academic partners, participating in 50 funded QTAL projects across NSW, with an opportunity to:

• engage in challenging discussion about Quality teaching, linked to student learning

• gain insights into how the application of action learning processes can result in more satisfying teaching and more effective student learning

• review and refine action learning plans.

The conference explored the key challenges for teachers to:

• identify what they need to learn

• identify the benefits and risks of engaging in action learning

• identify processes that might be used to gather evidence from their teaching practice

• explore ways in which team members might support each other in using the action learning processes of planning, acting, observing, discussing and reflecting to implement the Quality teaching model

• link the NSW model of Quality teaching to their own school’s teacher and student learning needs

• use an action learning process to make teaching practice the site for professional learning

• become reflective practitioners.

The conference program included:

• two introductory presentations

• a choice of two parallel workshops on the Quality teaching model of pedagogy

• a choice of two parallel workshops on action learning

• a session on managing QTAL projects – for school teams

• a session on working with school teams – for academic partners

• a workshop session to enable school teams and their academic partners to review and refine existing action learning plans.

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Disclaimer
The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training.
Acknowledgement
This project was funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training as a quality teacher initiative under the Australian Government Quality Teacher Programme.