Digital Stories

Digital stories help explain how AGQTP funds support highly effective professional learning in schools. Through interviews with teachers and school leaders, they demonstrate how AGQTP Activities support DEECD strategies for school improvement. They also provide an opportunity to see how similar programs could be developed in your school or clusters.

Each of the digital stories seeks to address their own focus question:

Barwon South Western Region

• Numeracy: Baimbridge College and Hamilton North Primary School (MP4 - 30.9Mb)
  How did you come about deciding the focus and approach of your maths pedagogy program?
  How was AGQTP funding used to support this?
• School Improvement: Norlane West Primary School (MP4 - 44.7Mb)
  How has the use of the lesson study approach lead to improved pedagogical approaches? How have your teachers become more reflective?

Gippsland Region

• Numeracy:Tarwin Valley Primary School (MP4 - 49.4Mb)
  How did you identify the aims of the numeracy project that you used and what has been the impact of it on the students?
  How did you utilise the staff that you have to achieve these aims?

Grampians Region

• Cluster:St Arnaud Secondary College and Beaufort Primary School (MP4 - 47.5Mb)
  How did the digital portfolio program that you undertook as a cluster impact on the schools, both in terms of what is occurring in the classrooms and in the development of the working relationship within the cluster?

Hume Region

• Feedback: Yarrawonga Secondary College (MP4 - 25.5Mb)
  How have you seen your teachers develop through the feedback they have received by participating in the AGQTP project?

Loddon Mallee Region

• Numeracy / Cultural Change: Red Cliffs East Primary School, Loddon Mallee Region (MP4 - 30.8Mb)
  How has the approach that you have used in your program been able to act as a model for cultural change within the school?
• Coaching, Leadership and Small Schools: Tempy Primary School, Loddon Mallee (MP4 - 29.3Mb)
  How has the relationship that you have developed with your coach supported you in your role?

Eastern Metropolitan Region

• Leadership, Communication, Team Cohesion: Heatherwood School (MP4 - 31.2Mb)
  How has the program you undertook enabled your school to operate more effectively through improvement in communication and a common purpose across the school?
• Peer Coaching:Waverley Meadows Primary School (MP4 - 35.5Mb)
  How has the peer coaching program that you have undertaken improved the capacity of the teachers in the school to critically reflect on what they are doing?

Northern Metropolitan Region

• Numeracy Resource: Killara Primary School, Northern Metropolitan Region (MP4 - 25.3Mb)
  How has the resource and the process of developing the resource with the other schools affected the teaching of numeracy and also the relationships that you have with the other schools?

Southern Metropolitan Region

• Catering for all students: Marnebek School and Kilberry Valley Primary School (MP4 - 43.2Mb)
  How have you seen the way teachers from main stream schools cater for students with additional learning needs change through their participation in the program? How has you participation in the program affected how you support students with additional learning needs?
• Curriculum Planning Tool: Mulberry Hill Cluster (Mount Erin Secondary College, Pearcedale Primary School, Baxter Primary School) (MP4 - 26.4Mb)
  How do you see the online curriculum planning tool that the team developed through the AGQTP program impacting on how teachers plan their curriculum?

Western Metropolitan Region

• Leadership Teams: Deer Park West Primary School (MP4 - 28.9Mb)
  How has the program allowed your leadership team to operate more effectively and what impact has this had on the school?
• Literacy: Sydenham Hillside Primary School (MP4 - 27.0Mb)
  How has the staff participation in the program impacted not only on the students, but also on the reinvigoration of your staff?