Quality Teaching professional development
What is it?
This two-day workshop introduces you to the QT Model and QT Rounds processes. The workshop is highly interactive, providing you the opportunity to apply your learning in practice. The workshop equips you with the resources needed to implement QT Rounds in your school.
Are you in a small, rural or remote school? QTR Digital could be the perfect solution for you.
Who should do it?
We recommend you do this workshop if you’re new to QT or if you would like to learn more about QT Rounds and how to implement it in your school. This workshop is offered face-to-face and online.
Our QT Rounds workshop addresses the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers – 10 hours: 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 6.2 and 6.3
What is it?
This one-day workshop supports you to enhance your assessment practice using the QT Model and the QT: Assessment Practice Guide. You will examine assessment practice and identify opportunities for improvement across your school. This professional development is highly interactive and allows you to apply your learning in the process of analysing and refining assessment tasks.
Who should do it?
We recommend this workshop if you’re new to QT or want to expand your QT knowledge across broader aspects of teaching and learning. This workshop is offered face-to-face and online.
Our QT: Enhancing assessment practice workshop addresses the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers – 5 hours: 3.1, 5.1, 6.2 and 6.3
What is it?
This one-day interactive workshop focuses on the knowledge and skills required to create highly engaging units of work for any subject or grade. You will also have the opportunity to design or refine your own unit of work using the QT Model in conjunction with the backward design approach to programming.
Who should do it?
We recommend this workshop to all teachers and school leaders interested in embedding high quality pedagogy in learning experiences and assessment activities. To gain the most benefit, we advise having a good working knowledge of the QT Model. This workshop is offered face-to-face and online.
QT: Creating engaging units of work addresses the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers – 6 hours: 1.2, 2.2, 2.3 and 6.3
One of the most effective implementation approaches for a whole-of-school focus on Quality Teaching is for our QT Advisers to come to your school and deliver professional development as part of a School Development Day. We offer a range of options for school leaders that support your strategic objectives. These workshops can be further tailored in collaboration with our team to deliver an professional learning experience specific for your needs and context. Get in touch to discuss your options.
TWO-DAY WORKSHOPS
Quality Teaching Rounds workshop
This two-day interactive workshop comprehensively unpacks the QT Model and participants will receive detailed, hands-on training in Quality Teaching (QT) Rounds through a number of collaborative sessions. Practical advice on effective implementation of QT Rounds will also be shared, along with research underpinning this powerful form of PD.
Through individual and small group activities, participants will:
• Develop an understanding of the three dimensions and 18 elements of the QT Model
• Observe lessons and code them using the QT Model
• Collaborate with other participants in rigorous discussions of classroom practice using the QT Model
• Analyse their own practice through the lens of the QT Model
The workshop is available in both face-to-face and online modes. It can be delivered on-site to a whole school on request.
Our Quality Teaching Rounds workshop consistently receives outstanding feedback from teachers of all career levels and subjects, school executives and systems leaders. It provides everything a school needs for successful, strategic implementation of QT Rounds. This workshop honours the complexity of teaching and supports teachers to boost student achievement through quality teaching practice.
QT: Assessment and learning design
QT: Enhancing assessment practice and QT: Designing engaging units of work can be delivered as a two-day PD experience on request (see below for workshop details).
ONE DAY WORKSHOPS
QT: Strengthening classroom practice
This one-day interactive workshop provides a comprehensive overview of the QT Model as it relates to classroom practice. It supports teachers to refine and enhance their teaching through individual reflection activities and engagement with the collaborative Quality Teaching (QT) Rounds process.
Participants will:
• Develop an understanding of the three dimensions and 18 elements of the QT Model
• Observe and code a lesson using the QT Model
• Use the QT Model as a lens to individually and collectively reflect on practice
The workshop is available in both face-to-face and online modes. It can also be delivered on-site to a whole school on request. Please note that at least two members of staff are required to have completed the two-day Quality Teaching Rounds workshop as a pre-requisite for undertaking this one-day workshop at a whole school level.
QT: Strengthening classroom practice is valuable for teachers of all career levels and subjects, school leaders and systems executives. This workshop honours the complexity of teaching and supports teachers to boost student achievement through engaging/quality classroom practice.
QT: Enhancing assessment practice
This one-day interactive workshop comprehensively unpacks the QT Model as it relates to assessment practice. Participants will receive detailed, hands-on training in how to analyse and refine assessment tasks and activities through a number of collaborative sessions. Practical advice on effective implementation of QT Assessment Rounds will also be shared, along with research underpinning this powerful form of PD.
Through individual and small group activities, participants will:
• Develop an understanding of the QT Model as it relates to assessment practice
• Code an assessment task/activity against the elements of the QT Model
• Engage with participants in discussion of assessment practice using the QT Model
• Analyse their own assessment practice through the lens of the QT Model
The workshop is available in both face-to-face and online modes. It can also be delivered on-site to a whole school on request.
QT: Enhancing assessment practice is highly regarded by teachers of all career levels and subjects, school executives and systems leaders. It provides everything a school needs for successful, strategic embedding of the QT Model across all areas of assessment. This workshop honours the complexity of teaching and supports teachers to boost student achievement through quality assessment practice.
QT: Designing engaging units of work
This one-day interactive workshop unpacks learning design through the lens of the QT Model and a backward-design approach to programming units of work. Participants will receive detailed, hands-on training in how to analyse and refine units of work.
Through individual and small group activities, participants will:
• Develop an understanding of the QT Model as it relates to programming
• Analyse a unit of work
• Engage with other participants in rigorous discussion of programming practice using the QT Model
• Develop an understanding of the backward design approach to programming
• Design/refine their own unit of work
The workshop is available in both face-to-face and online modes. It can also be delivered on-site to a whole school on request.
QT: Designing engaging units of work is highly valued by teachers of all career levels and subjects, school leaders and curriculum specialists. It provides everything a school needs for successful, strategic embedding of the QT Model in the design and refinement of units of work. This workshop honours the complexity of teaching and supports teachers to boost student achievement through quality learning design.
Whether you’re planning professional development for all staff members, executive leadership teams, or select groups of teachers, we can collaborate with your school to deliver a tailored program designed to transform teaching and learning.
These professional development sessions can focus on the QT Model, QT Rounds, assessment, curriculum, or a combination of these to suit your strategic goals. We also provide the flexibility to complete the professional development in a format that works best for your school. Our workshops can be conducted face-to-face or online and can include single-day workshops, multi-day intensives, and morning, afternoon or evening sessions.
Get in touch to discuss your tailored QT professional development.
Our annual Quality Teaching in Practice conference sees educators, researchers and policymakers from across the world gather to share their knowledge and experience, providing yet another way to engage with QT.
We’re excited to welcome you back to Newcastle for the Quality Teaching in Practice (QTiP) conference 2025. Secure your place at QTiP25 here.
We host regular free webinars for our members and can also run tailored webinars for your school. We run a series of webinars each term exploring the QT Model and the latest in educational research.
Our webinars are recorded and uploaded to the Members Area on our website.
Keen to access these webinars? Become a QT Academy member.
When doing QT Rounds in your school, you will collaborate with a small group of teachers (we recommend groups of three to four) to learn from each other and improve practice. The QT Rounds process has four steps; the first is a reading discussion to build the professional relationship amongst the group; the second is a whole lesson observation; the third is individual coding using the QT Model; and the fourth is a deep group discussion about the lesson and pedagogy more broadly. You repeat this four-step process on separate days until each group member has had one of their lessons observed.
QT Assessment Rounds uses the same processes as QT Rounds. You will collaborate with your colleagues to analyse and refine assessment tasks using the QT Model. Because QT Assessment Rounds does not require a full lesson observation, it can be conducted in shorter professional development sessions.
QTR Digital offers you the opportunity to collaborate with teachers from different schools to undertake the powerful processes of QT Rounds, or Assessment Rounds, in a wholly online environment. If you are in a small, rural or remote school, QTR Digital could be the perfect solution for you. Book a chat with our QT Advisers to discuss QTR Digital in your school.
QT Rounds is our tried and tested approach to embedding QT and has had a positive impact for thousands of teachers and millions of students in schools across the world. However, we have supported teachers to embed QT in various other ways. For example, this may involve small group curriculum planning, engaging teachers in Analysing Practice activities, and individual refinement and analysis. This two-page guide is a handy reference for embedding QT in a range of different contexts.
A tailored approach to embedding QT
We understand that improving quality teaching practice is unique to each teacher and school’s circumstances. Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you have and offer tailored support for you and your school.
Alternatively, explore how you can adapt QTR for success in your school. We also have a great database of planning, implementation, and evaluation resources which you can access here.
Our QT courses address the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
- QT Rounds workshop – 10 hours: 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 6.2 and 6.3
- QT: Enhancing Assessment Practice – 5 hours: 3.1, 5.1, 6.2 and 6.3
- QT: Strengthening Program Design – 6 hours: 1.2, 2.2, 2.3 and 6.3
Participation in QT Rounds helps teachers to identify and demonstrate their accomplishment of the Standards and reflect on areas where they can enhance their professional knowledge or practice.
Professional knowledge
Standard 1 – Know students and how they learn
Standard 2 – Know the content and how to teach it
The in-situ nature of QTR means teachers analyse and develop their understanding of how students learn within their own context. In QTR, teachers consider how to develop engaging learning activities with sufficient challenge, support and relevance. The deep analysis of lesson in QTR sharpens focus on key concepts and how to teach them. The collaborative nature of PLCs means all teachers contribute to the collective knowledge of teachers in their school by analysing the intellectual quality of observed lessons.
Professional practice
Standard 3 – Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
Standard 4 – Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
In QTR, teachers use the QT Model as the basis for developing a shared understanding of what constitutes quality teaching practice during lesson analysis. The Model helps teachers to understand effective teaching and learning at a high level of specificity. Teachers use fresh insights gained during QTR, to enhance planning, implementation and evaluation of meaningful teaching and learning experiences.
Teachers explicitly discuss elements such as social support and students’ self-regulation to create and maintain quality learning environments, enhancing student participation and opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning. After participating in QTR, teachers can use knowledge from professional discussions to plan and evaluate their teaching and learning activities, and programs. The QT Model and QTR honour the complexity of classroom practice and teachers’ roles in shaping safe, inclusive and challenging learning environments.
Professional engagement
Standard 6 – Engage in professional learning
In QTR, teachers work in PLCs to develop both individual and collective capacity. All participants in Rounds have their teaching practice observed and analysed in structured collegial discussions. The turn-taking process ensures all teachers in the PLC are heard. After participating in QTR, teachers can use knowledge from their PLC discussions and individual reflections to identify and plan professional learning needs using both the Quality Teaching Model and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
QTR has a demonstrated positive impact on teacher morale, self-efficacy and collegiality, as well as statistically significant impacts on student outcomes. When teachers participate in QTR, they are involved in collegial and collaborative professional learning focused on pedagogy.
Our three QT professional development workshops have been awarded UNITAR-CIFAL certification.
This means our professional development has been recognised as being part of the global collaborative effort to provide quality education towards the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
