Quality Teaching Rounds in Queensland primary schools

The Queensland Department of Education has partnered with the Teachers and Teaching Research Centre together with the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Queensland to test the impact of Quality Teaching Rounds on student outcomes in Queensland in 2022.

Queensland state schools are eligible to participate and need at least two teachers who will be teaching Year 5 and/or Year 6 in 2022 and two other teachers to make up a professional learning community of four (can include a group of schools).

Up to $7,000 is available to cover workshop attendance and teacher release.

Spaces are limited. To secure your school's place, please download, sign and return the principal consent form [pdf] to qtr-qld@newcastle.edu.au.

If you have any questions, please email us or call our project manager, Terina Vale on (02) 4921 5053.

Want to find out more about QTR? Read the report on our successful pilot study with ten Queensland government schools.

Building collegiality through QTR

Tamsin Watson is a Year 5 teacher at Peregian Springs State School on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Tamsin and her colleagues completed their first set of Quality Teaching Rounds in 2021 and are already experiencing the benefits.

“It’s very much about self-reflection. It has helped us to affirm the pedagogies we already use in the classroom,” she said.

“We’re excited, we can already see the benefits of it. Our goal now is to get QTR going throughout the whole school.”

You can read more of Tamsin's story here.