Curriculum Conversations for Teachers: Preparing Students for the QCAA General Dance External Exam

For teachers of QCAA General Dance

Location | Thomas Dixon Centre or Online via ZOOM

FREE to register

Ausdance Educators QLD (AEQ) invite you to a Dance Dialogues: Curriculum Conversations for Teachers event, focussed on preparing students for the external Dance exam. This FREE sharing-of-practice session will be held in-person at the Thomas Dixon Centre in Brisbane, or online via Zoom, on Sunday, 28th July (Term 3, start of Week 4).

This informal event, facilitated by the AEQ committee, is designed for teachers who are, will be or have been involved in preparing Year 12 students for the external Dance exam for the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s (QCAA) General Dance syllabus. Participants will share their preparation approaches, strategies, resources and experiences which will complement and expand your own external exam preparation pedagogy. Sharing topics for the two-and-a-half-hour event include:

• Analytical essay structure and writing practice

• Dance concepts and skills understanding and utilisation

• Unit planning and teaching strategies for sustained student engagement

Please BYO resources that you are willing to share with other participants, including:

• one or more external exam-linked, and/or responding, practical tasks

• one or more external exam writing practice, and/or responding, tasks

• your external exam preparation unit plan/schedule.

 Join us as we create a community of practice through listening, learning and sharing, enriching our collective external exam preparation experience. Register your intention to attend either in-person, or online, here.

View our conference page here

Queensland Dance Education Conference 2023 is a one-day professional development event for dance educators and teachers in QLD, produced by Ausdance QLD in association with our Ausdance Educators QLD subcommittee at the Thomas Dixon Centre in Brisbane.

The purpose of QDEC23 is to challenge, enrich and educate dance teaching professionals. In 2023, the scope of the conference includes learning content for primary, middle, and secondary dance educators in all schooling sectors, and independent studio & freelance teachers.

You’ll listen to speeches, panel discussions and presentations (both of creative works and on current issues in dance education) and actively participate in practical dance classes. There is a focus on integrating grassroots First Nations perspectives and addressing the key curriculum requirement of embedding First Nations perspectives into teaching in schools.

Some sessions of QDEC23 will be webcast for regional participants and a resource pack - pending Cultural ownership, copyright, acknowledgement, and permissions – may be provided by presenters.