Queensland Educator Professional Development Training
Access pre-approved quality global competence training at a discounted rate for your staff and your colleagues.
Value Learning is proud to have been selected as a partner of choice by the Department of Education Queensland to provide professional development training opportunities for primary and secondary teachers from all school types.
We believe in supporting educators as they help their students to develop global skills and knowledge. We are pleased to provide a range of training products available online and in-person to assist educators in transforming their own levels of global competence and intercultural understanding, in turn improving the learning experiences of their students.
Operating across a variety of professional categories including ‘Communication and Interpersonal’ (Category B), ‘Management and Leadership’ (Category D), and “Teacher professional Development” (Category E), explore all our programs for QLD teachers.
View the programs on offer below and contact us to discuss your needs.
Selecting the right program for your needs
Ranging from introductory to advanced levels, we offer a variety of education focussed courses to choose from. Most courses are designed for groups and can be delivered online or in-person. Our courses cover global competence skills for educators, fostering intercultural curiosity in your classroom and a range of courses that help you build a more inclusive school.
We work on a consultation basis with you to assess your school's or your teachers' needs and to suggest the most appropriate training program, factoring in availability and budget. We also customise each product to best suit participants and pricing has been negotiated at a discounted rate for Queensland educators and carries a further 15% discount for groups of 10 or more.
Eligibility
Teachers in all Queensland State and non-State Schools (including Catholic Education and Independent Schools) are eligible to apply.
Programs at a glance
Take a look at an overview of the programs on offer, then click the buttons to read more or scroll further to view the program detail.
Global Competence Skills
Foster intercultural curiosity in your classroom
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at school
More about this standing offer
Value Learning holds ‘Approved Supplier Status’ by the Department of Education Queensland. This means that Value Learning’s training offering has been evaluated as value for money and guarantees quality training helping you to save time, money and reduce any potential risks.
Programs in Detail
Explore the details for each of the programs we can offer your and the educators at your school.
Grow Your Global Competence
Elevate your intercultural learning skills when you participate in the global competence courses, designed specifically for educators and classrooms.
Global Competence Certificate
The Global Competence Certificate is a research-backed, award-winning program that has helped ten of thousands of individuals across six continents improve their global competence and enhance their appreciation for and ability to learn, work and thrive across differences.
Online learning
The program includes online learning modules completed at own pace and weekly live online sessions to deepen learning, explore different perspectives and identify additional applications in own practice.
Facilitated sessions
Join a group of likeminded learners, curious and interested in elevating their global skills and share in lively discussions during the weekly live facilitated sessions to elevate your learning when you also share and learn with others.
Self-paced learning
This self-paced learning program is delivered online. You can complete the interactive modules, requiring no more than two hours per week, from the comfort of your home
Tangible learning outcomes
Your learning outcomes include self awareness and awareness of your own culture and background and unpack behaviours driven by how our values are shaped, helping you to gain awareness of and empathy for others.
You will develop skills in suspending judgement while you also gain strategies for dealing with ambiguity.
As a result, you will enhance your communications and interactions across cultures in the classroom, at school and in life.
Group size: Minimum 5 per school
Learning outcomes
Self-awareness
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Increase cultural self-awareness through reflecting on their own personal and cultural experience as citizens in local to global contexts.
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Identify and understand how cultural groups have shaped their characteristic ways of feeling, perceiving, thinking, and behaving.
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Analyse and reflect on power relations, privilege, and inequality.
Awareness about others
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Recognize and understand patterns of behaviour and values of people from different cultural contexts.
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Empathize with culturally different others.
Emotional intelligence
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Suspend judgment and be flexible in new and different cultural contexts.
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Apply effective and appropriate strategies to deal with ambiguous situations.
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Describe and manage responses to their own cultural biases and emotional triggers.
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Be aware of personal limits and be open to seek support.
Bridges to others
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Initiate and develop relationships with culturally different others.
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Communicate and interact effectively and appropriately in different cultural contexts.
Global Competence Essentials
This highly interactive, engaging and hands on one day workshop (or online format) will help teachers understand the basics of global competence and, in particular, the intercultural understanding component.
The workshop provides a solid overview of the key principles for intercultural competence together with a variety of experiential activities ready to be applied in the classroom to advance the general capabilities of the Australian Curriculum.
Online or in person learning
This program can be delivered as a 90-minute short course online, or delivered as a full day facilitated course in person.
Learning outcomes
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Define global and intercultural competence
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Identify the key skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to develop intercultural competence
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Connect learning to the Australian Curriculum and other international frameworks
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Describe the different layers of culture and how the values and beliefs shape our view of the world
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Apply a variety of techniques to suspend judgment in an intercultural situation
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Apply different activities for intercultural understanding in the classroom.
Intercultural Conflict Styles
This highly interactive, engaging and hands on one day workshop (or online format) will help teachers understand the basics of global competence and, in particular, the intercultural understanding component.
The workshop provides a solid overview of the key principles for intercultural competence together with a variety of experiential activities ready to be applied in the classroom to advance the general capabilities of the Australian Curriculum.
Online or in person learning
This program can be delivered as a 90-minute short course online, or delivered as a full day facilitated course in person.
Learning outcomes
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Define global and intercultural competence
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Identify the key skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to develop intercultural competence
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Connect learning to the Australian Curriculum and other international frameworks
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Describe the different layers of culture and how the values and beliefs shape our view of the world
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Apply a variety of techniques to suspend judgment in an intercultural situation
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Apply different activities for intercultural understanding in the classroom.
Fostering Cultural Curiosity in the Classroom
Hone your knowledge and skills in understanding the challenges and best practice in fostering intercultural curiosity in your school and classroom with these online and in person training courses.
Assessing Intercultural Competence
Participants will explore a range of validated methods and tools currently in use for assessing intercultural competence. They will consider how best to use intercultural assessment in their practice for gathering evidence of competence and a means of measuring development and progress.
Participants will have the choice to complete the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale (IES) prior to the workshop, and receive a detailed personalised report.
Fostering Cultural Curiosity in the Classroom
In this interactive workshop we will explore the concept of curiosity and how it is key when supporting participants developing intercultural competence.
Participants will learn the most effective and engaging activities to help your students suspend judgement and shift perspectives in intercultural relations and beyond.
Learning outcomes
During this workshop participants will be able to:
1. Explore the key skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to develop intercultural understanding
2. Discuss the role curiosity plays in developing intercultural understanding
3. Experience and apply effective experiential learning activities to foster curiosity
4. Examine strategies to support learners in shifting perspectives and suspending judgement
Experiential learning and debriefing
Participants will learn about the power of experiential learning to facilitate meaningful learning. They will review the experiential learning cycle as defined by David Kolb including the different learning styles and their characteristics. Participants will learn different strategies to cater for different learning styles. They will also learn the key steps for a successful debriefing within the experiential learning cycle.
Learning outcomes
During this workshop participants will be able to:
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Understand what experiential learning and debriefing are and how to maximize impact of both for deep intercultural learning
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Identify different methodologies and frameworks for debriefing experiential learning activities
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Identify strategies for effective debriefing and meaningful learning
Skills to develop a more inclusive school
Hone your knowledge and skills in understanding the challenges and best practice in fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in your school and classroom with these online and in person
A developmental approach to build a more inclusive school
Participants will be introduced to the Intercultural Development Continuum that helps us understand the different stages people go through when dealing with cultural differences.
Based on the model developed by Milton Bennett, specific strategies and activities will be shared to cater for each stage of the model.
Participants will have the option of taking the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) to self-assess their intercultural sensitivity and receive personal coaching to move forward in their own development.
Learning outcomes
During this workshop participants will be able to:
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Describe the different ways in which people and schools deal with differences
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Identify their personal (and their school) way of dealing with difference
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Develop skills to be more effective and appropriate when dealing with difference
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Gain strategies to support students in developing their intercultural competence
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Develop a plan and strategies to help their school become more inclusive
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at school
This program builds personal and school awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion.
It offers strategies and core learning to help reduce the effects of bias, prejudice and stereotypes that exist in our community, schools and institutions.
Learning outcomes
During this workshop participants will be able to:
1. Build understanding of the key concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion
2. Increase awareness of diverse cultural identities and the value of belonging
3. Explore how and why we stereotype and act with bias
4. Gain tools to help be more inclusive and to build more inclusive environments.
Intercultural Sprint: building an inclusive school
During the Intercultural Sprint teachers use design thinking principles to consider the question: How might we create a more diverse and inclusive school? This workshop can be adapted to all work communities/teams. Participants explore and discuss the topic in their schools/workplace to identify issues related to discrimination, racism or non inclusive practices that may occur. They will then design, sketch and choose the most popular ideas to create a school environment that is more respectful, inclusive and understanding of cultural differences.
Learning outcomes
During this workshop participants will:
1. Understand the importance of diversity and inclusion in our societies
2. Learn design thinking principles and strategies
3. Reflect on what makes a more inclusive school
4. Design ideas and projects to create a more inclusive environment
5. Develop a sense of responsibility to foster diversity and inclusivity in their community