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Quality Teaching Academy

Locality: Newcastle, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4055 7579

Address: University Drive 2308 Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Website: http://qtacademy.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Natalie had a great time at The Sydney Morning Herald Schools Summit today! #SMHSchools #QualityTeachingRounds

23.01.2022 Congratulations to our four World Teachers' Day Giveaway winners! Cassandra Byleveld, Taryan Lee Josephine, Supriya Prasad, and Carol Humphrey. Keep an eye on your email, we will be sending you details on claiming your prize!

20.01.2022 Meet the team - Jenny Gore, Founder From Lecturer to Laureate Professor - this year Jenny celebrates 30 years at the University of Newcastle. She’s always found pleasure in her work and says her desire to create change has never wavered. Jenny didn’t set out to become an academic growing up in a family of teachers, Jenny spent two years as a PE teacher, before joining her then-boyfriend in Canada where she attained her Master’s degree. Returning to Australia, Jenny worked... as a teacher educator at UQ and UON. When encouraged by Ken Zeichner, she set off to the US to complete her PhD with a focus on critical and feminist pedagogy. In 1991, Jenny returned to Australia and from there her long and successful academic career unfolded. While always dedicated to her work, Jenny raised two daughters and maintains some work-life balance, unwinding at the beach, the gym, by reading or her guilty pleasure - watching reality TV. Although academic life has its challenges, her drive comes from the conviction that her work matters. Grateful for support she received in her career from friends, family, and mentors, she is committed to paying-it-forward and nurturing the aspirations of her current colleagues, her friends. Ultimately, though, my story is grounded in a serendipitous alignment of circumstances, opportunities, and connections brought to fruition through a great deal of toil and much delight. See more

17.01.2022 It's your final chance to enter our #WorldTeachersDay Giveaway! Entries close midnight tonight (AEDT). Already done QTR? Don't worry, if you enter and win just nominate a colleague for the workshop and we will send you a Quality Teaching Academy merch pack.

17.01.2022 Bigger is better right? Read our latest blog examining effect sizes in education research at a time when 'evidence-based practice' is a key focus and influencer for decision makers. Effect sizes matter, but as you'll find out bigger isn't always better.

16.01.2022 Beginning teacher Alarna spoke to us about how QTR has helped her feel more empowered. "[QTR] gave me a really clear direction about what quality actually looks like in the classroom. Become a member to read Alarna's story. ... https://qtacademy.edu.au/empowering-new-teachers/ See more

14.01.2022 We only have three QTR workshops left for 2020. If you want some high quality PD before the year's out jump over to our website to register. www.qtacademy.edu.au/workshops

14.01.2022 Check out our #WorldTeachersDay giveaway

13.01.2022 What do you think is the most rewarding part of Quality Teaching Rounds? Comment

12.01.2022 Face-to-face workshops are back! Our first one of the year is in Newcastle, at the fabulous NUSpace. Have you booked in? Get in touch if you want a QTR workshop in your town! ... #QualityTeachingRounds

11.01.2022 Published today! Following many years of research, including the largest randomised controlled trial in Australian education research, we are thrilled our peer-reviewed paper demonstrating that Quality Teaching Rounds improves student outcomes has now been published. Read the paper here: http://qtr.edu.au/m-studentoutcomes

10.01.2022 Great day filming new QTR lesson videos at Thornton Public School! Thank you so much to the staff and students who volunteered their classrooms today! You’re all stars

09.01.2022 Places are filling up for our Queensland funded professional development opportunity. If you want to participate in Quality Teaching Rounds research, message us, or visit www.newcastle.edu.au/qtr for more info.

09.01.2022 Natalie was in the driver's seat delivering today's QTR workshop. Thanks to all our wonderful participants, we hope you enjoyed your first taste of Quality Teaching Rounds. We've now only got two workshops left for the year and then it's goodbye 2020, hello 2021!

08.01.2022 One of our #QualityTeachingRounds Advisers spoke at today's public hearing of the 'Valuing the teaching profession - an independent inquiry'. Read our submission to the inquiry from July:

05.01.2022 ‘Quality Teaching Rounds and school excellence’ is a resource developed by our team of experienced teachers and researchers to support school leaders with strategic planning. This resource aims to help schools with their planning by mapping QTR to the School Excellence Framework, providing tools for evaluating and reporting and templates for incorporating QTR into your strategic plans. Find out more and download this resource for free.... https://qtacademy.edu.au/quality-teaching-rounds-and-schoo/

05.01.2022 #NAIDOC2020 #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

05.01.2022 Join our community of teachers with a shared vision of quality teaching for every student, every day.

05.01.2022 Today is our last QTR workshop of the year! Thanks to everyone who has participated in workshops this year - we've loved all the powerful discussions about teaching practice. Our 2021 workshop schedule is live on our website. Check it out www.qtacademy.edu.au/workshops

01.01.2022 Have you entered our #WorldTeachersDay Giveaway yet? You could win one of four Quality Teaching Rounds workshop tickets. https://qtacademy.edu.au/world-teachers-day-giveaway/ Get in now - entries close Wednesday 4 November.