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Heyyy you! I'm Calen, a 21 year-old PTT student, living + studying + working in Mackay. I always loved school, and after working some pretty brain dead jobs I decided to jump back into my studies and pursue teaching. BEST THING I'VE EVER DONE. I have a deep love for education and love that you can develop relationships with students and families within may community. My hobbies are jogging and exploring the outdoors, ultimately one of the reasons why I ventured down this career path. In the long run, I want to be flexible, travelling around Australia while relief teaching, getting to see the world while making a difference in it :)

I cannot wait to see how digital technologies can help transition my current classroom (as a PTT) into an engaging, fun and resourceful way of learning. I am currently located at a Primary School, but am aiming to slowly ease into a secondary school to teach English and Humanities (Teenagers are much easier to deal with then the little ones!!)

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Canva is a free, intuitive digital design platform that allows students to create and publish a wide range of visual and multimodal texts. With access to a vast library of templates, images, graphics, and text formatting tools, students can design presentations, posters, infographics, and more. Canva supports creativity and collaboration while helping students develop key skills in visual literacy, communication, and digital storytelling. It is especially useful for enhancing understanding of audience, purpose, and layout—essential elements in both English and Humanities contexts.

I believe this is one of the most resourceful digital tools to date, that can be utilised within any learning environment or from home! The possibilities are endless, with the layout of this tool being easy to navigate and the templates helping kick start lessons + learning tasks :) This tool will foster engaging, effective and fun learning inside and out the classroom. It will be an invaluable ICT used to structure and plan English and Humanities lessons, whilst exploring creative aspects.

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The Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 (AC v9.0) is the latest national framework outlining what students from Foundation to Year 10 should learn across Australia. It was developed by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) following a comprehensive review in 2020–2021, incorporating feedback from educators, parents, and the public. AC v9.0 maintains a three-dimensional structure comprising:

1. Leaning Areas: Eight key subjects, including English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), The Arts, Technologies, Health and Physical Education, and Languages (ACARA, 2025)

2. General Capabilities: Seven essential skills and dispositions—Literacy, Numeracy, ICT Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, and Intercultural Understanding (Pearson, n.d)

3. Cross Curriculum Priorities:Three areas that reflect national and global contexts—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia, and Sustainability (Pearson, n.d).

The Australian Curriculum has been remodelled to version 9.0 to enhance clarity, refine content and improve alignment which all aim to provide a more streamlined, teachable, and relevant curriculum that equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary for their future.

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Queensland Curriculum Assessment & Authority (QCAA)

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Queensland Curriculum Assessment & Authority (QCAA)

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The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) is the body responsible for curriculum assessment, development and certification in Queensland, Australia. When I was in my last years of school, I was paranoid of QCAA, how it marked my work and collected data (I now realise it’s not as scary as it sounded). Throughout my studies I have developed a deep understanding in the vital roles of the QCCA which include:

1.    Developing and implementing curriculum from prep to year 12 for all Queensland schools

2.    Oversees senior assessment and certification, including the Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE)

3.    Manages external assessments and provides guidelines for internal assessments in senior schooling.

4.    Supports teachers and schools by providing professional development, resources, and moderation processes to ensure consistency and fairness in assessment.

5.    Collects and analyses data to inform educational improvement and reporting

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Education Perfect was a digital tool I interacted with during my senior school years (year 7-10), which was an amazing digital learning platform that supports teaching and learning across subjects including English, Maths, Science and Humanities. I believe EP is an invaluable digital tool that engages students through their learning resources including, interactive quizzes, videos, readings, structure breakdowns and auto marked tasks. This ICT provides immediate constructive feedback to students and tracks data, which can assign differentiated tasks to cater for diverse learners. Additionally, teachers can monitor and track their students progress, support remote learning and enhance digital literacy. Overall, Education Perfect is aligns with ICT General Capabilities, helping students create, access and communicate ideas and opinions digitally. Standard 6.2 and 7.4 of the Australian Professional Teaching Standards (AITSL) are reflected within this tool as it collaboratively expands student engagement, learning and opportunities on a digital scale.

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Education Perfect was a digital tool I interacted with during my senior school years (year 7-10), which was an amazing digital learning platform that supports teaching and learning across subjects including English, Maths, Science and Humanities. I believe EP is an invaluable digital tool that engages students through their learning resources including, interactive quizzes, videos, readings, structure breakdowns and auto marked tasks. This ICT provides immediate constructive feedback to students and tracks data, which can assign differentiated tasks to cater for diverse learners. Additionally, teachers can monitor and track their students progress, support remote learning and enhance digital literacy. Overall, Education Perfect is aligns with ICT General Capabilities, helping students create, access and communicate ideas and opinions digitally. Standard 6.2 and 7.4 of the Australian Professional Teaching Standards (AITSL) are reflected within this tool as it collaboratively expands student engagement, learning and opportunities on a digital scale.

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Education Perfect | Learning, Assessment and Analytics Platform

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Education Perfect is a leading learning, assessment and analytics platform for years K-12. Learn More.

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Minecraft Education!! (everyone loves Minecraft)

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Minecraft Education!! (everyone loves Minecraft)

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This is a valuable digital that can be implemented into pedagogy, and is a tool used at my school during 'Digital Technology' for year 5/6 students. It encourages learning through student-centred approaches enhancing creativity and critical thinking. Furthermore it supports Cross-Curriclium Connections and supports the ICT General Capabilities.

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Get Minecraft Education for your classroom. Find out how using this game will take your students’ learning to the next level.

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Kahoot is a digital interactive quiz platform that boosts engagement and motivation levels within classrooms. It allows educators to create and test their learners with real-time quizzes, polls and surveys which often review of assess knowledge on learning. This ICT is important as it eases students into retaining information, strengthening understandings while building confidence within students learning abilities. This tool can additionally be used to differentiate for individuals, through critical and creative thinking, and personal and social capabilities.

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This is a digital resource I had seen from another peers Padlet, similar to Kahoot, Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool that lets teachers create live polls, quizzes, and Q&As to engage students, assess understanding, and encourage participation using real-time digital feedback. Warming up or finishing lessons with these unique and engaging learning activities will allow students to retain information in a fun and resourceful way.

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Australian Professional Standards For Teachers

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Australian Professional Standards For Teachers

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Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers help you understand and develop your teaching practice and expertise across 4 career stages. By demonstrating the Standards you can have maximum impact on all learners.

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australian professional standards for teachers

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Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

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Twinkle is a time saver!! I use this digital platform ALL the time within my classroom as there are hundreds of resourceful English, Math and Science worksheets to use. This digital platform is vital as it is offers pre-made, curriculum-aligned resources that help encourage and sport diverse learners. It has lesson planning appropriate for all ages with unique materials and visuals.

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Teaching Resources - Primary, F-2, Years 3-4, Years 5-6, EYLF, SEN, EAL

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Storyboard that is a very useful digital tool for all students as it allows them to visually plan, create and present narratives, text summaries or character analysis through comic style story boards. This platform supports literacy and literature development by encouraging comprehension, creative and critical thinking making it an eating resource for both collaborative and English tasks.

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Free Australia Images and Photos for Everyone

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Use FREE Australia Pictures for Classroom Lessons. Download high-quality Australia Images & Photos for educational projects and activities.

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Story Jumper is a free to use digital tool that connects learners creative ideas to design and construct digital story books. This platform supports digital literacy, creativity and narrative writing, via digital aspects such as images, templates and audios. This platform is ideal for all learners at it allows them to create in a fun, engaging manner.

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Padlet is a vital digital tool that can be utilised within English classrooms at it allows students to collaborate, express, share and build upon ideas. Padlets unique digital aspects (similar to Canva) allow for students to create crafty pieces of work using images, links, vibrant subheadings and videos that encourage learning. Padlet fosters engagement, critical thinking, and visible learning in real time, while allowing learners to strengthen their digital capabilities.

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ReWordify is a free online tool, created to break down and simplify bulky texts for easier comprehension. Content can be made more accessible for students, as a drop and paste feature allows students to copy and paste difficult passages, rewording them in another way to analyse. Rewordify supports learners in building confidence, improving comprehension, and expanding their vocabulary in an engaging and user-friendly manner. Finally, this resource caters for diverse learners, as as students with reading difficulties can develop an understanding of informative texts in a different manner. z