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Kaitlin Heggen, an early career teacher at Hambledon Public School, talks to 9 News about the transformational experience of doing Quality Teaching Rounds.

Support for the induction of your early career teachers

QTR brings teachers together to learn from each other and improve their teaching. It involves groups of four teachers working through a process of observation and analysis of teaching practice, which has been shown through rigorous research to improve the quality of teaching and student academic achievement.

Expanding Quality Teaching Rounds was one of the 27 actions announced as part of the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan. Funded by the Australian Government, our project, ‘Strengthening Induction through QTR’, aims to improve the morale, confidence, job satisfaction and retention of early career teachers across Australia. It is based on compelling evidence that QTR improves teaching quality, teacher morale and confidence and student achievement.

Starting in Term 3, 2023, the project will support 1,600 early career teachers and key colleagues from schools across Australia to take part in QTR, with intakes twice a year for the next four years.

All teachers involved will access a free QTR professional development workshop (valued at $880 per teacher) as well as a range of other implementation and mentoring supports.

Eligibility

This project is open to all Australian schools, across all states, territories and sectors. At least 50% of a school’s participating teachers must be in the first three years of their teaching career.

Schools should form professional learning communities of four teachers (schools can have multiple PLCs in the project). Schools can form PLCs across networks of schools or enter the project with individual early career teachers who we will pair with other PLCs to participate through our QTR Digital platform.

 

What’s involved

Eligible teachers will attend a two-day QTR workshop, either face-to-face or online. They will then participate in a set of Quality Teaching Rounds in their school or via our QTR Digital platform for teachers participating across schools.

Teachers will be asked to complete several short, online surveys before and after participating in QTR. A small subset of teachers and principals will be asked to participate in researcher interviews.

Benefits

All participating teachers will receive free registration to a two-day QTR workshop, either face-to-face or online. Research shows participating in QTR improves teaching quality, teacher morale, and student academic achievement.

Connecting early career teachers with experienced teachers through QTR leads to an improved school culture, greater job satisfaction and connectedness of teachers to their colleagues and the school. Mentors and experienced teachers will be better able to support teacher induction both within and beyond the life of the project.

One school leader and one mentor from each school will be invited to attend a free leadership and mentoring seminar.

If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected]

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