The provision of high-quality professional learning opportunities is a key part of the services offered by Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ). ISQ is proud to offer an extensive calendar of professional learning opportunities to member schools.
ISQ’s professional learning and events are offered via a variety of channels including traditional face-to-face, via online platforms and through blended learning opportunities to enhance the user’s experience while offering flexibility to suit the needs of ISQ members.
Use the search panel on the right-hand side of this page or download ISQ's Professional Learning Prospectus 2018 to find a professional learning opportunity that's right for you.
Find out more about ISQ's Professional Learning Centre.
Developed in collaboration with Indigenous elders and educators this course supports schools to form valuable partnerships and engage with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community peoples to enhance the education of all students, develop teachers’ cultural competency and support the identity and educational outcomes of Indigenous students.
This is a rigorous and comprehensive online learning course for teachers of numeracy. It considers numeracy as an instructional focus, addresses a numeracy framework, will assist with developing ways of working in the classroom and implementing collection of numeracy data to inform planning. This course is delivered as three, one hour modules.
This one hour course will assist school leadership teams meet their responsibilities to grow staff capability. The module is structured into four phases: Preparation, Alignment, Implementation, Review. Completion will result in an Action Plan with specific strategies to develop performance and development framework and processes.
This is a rigorous and comprehensive online learning course that focuses on key instructional priorities including reading as a thinking process, embedding the reading process within a community of learners and the use of data to plan for reading. This course is delivered as three, one hour modules.
This is a rigorous and comprehensive online learning course that focuses on key instructional priorities including assessment for spelling, integrating spelling into the curriculum, and the use of data to plan for spelling. This course is delivered as three, one hour modules.
This is a rigorous and comprehensive online learning course focuses on key instructional priorities including the development of a metalanguage for writing, instructional routines and data-driven instruction. Research-based literacy models are converted into practical delivery into a classroom setting. This course is delivered as three, one hour modules.
This series of online modules for teachers, school leaders and board members can be completed as a course or accessed independently. It is designed to help learners to understand the educational data available and support them in evidence-based decision making for individual students and cohorts as well as strategic planning.
This series of three, one hour modules explores coaching as an approach to professional learning and school improvement. This course will assist you to learn about building coaching, implementing coaching and deepening, extending and sustaining coaching
This self-paced course guides the participant through an action research process. The online content is designed to be used simultaneously with the enactment of an action research project. The course includes practical information and activities, from developing a research question to project reporting.
This one hour module is designed to help you to learn how to facilitate effective mentoring relationships. This activity is supported by funding from the Australian Government’s Non-Government Reform Support Fund (NGRSF).
20 September 2018 - Independent Schools Queensland says the school funding package announced by the Australian Government today provides vital short-term funding certainty for independent schools and also outlines a roadmap for the future.
Read more7 September 2018 - Queensland’s independent schooling sector last night celebrated the accomplishments of 25 exceptional educators who have confirmed their places among the nation’s top guns of teaching.
Read more16 October 2018 - ISQ ED David Robertson discusses the potential impact of the Parental Income Tax (PIT) measure on funding for the sector. Meanwhile ISQ Director (Strategic Relations), Shari Armistead, together with Senior Advisor (Public Affairs), Justine Nolan examines the power of parental engagement in educational performance.
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