Australian Government Quality Teacher Programme ( AGQTP) funding complements and supplements Education Queensland projects and initiatives.
The AGQTP requires the development of activities that will equip teachers with the skills and knowledge needed for teaching in the 21st Century across three core priority areas:
Education Queensland's 2007 AGQTP will address the full range of program priority areas, and a variety of topic areas as follows:
Priority Area | Topic | Activity |
| Curriculum | Numeracy/maths/ literacy/technology | Regional Activities to Support Syllabus Implementation (RASSI) |
| Cross-curricular/ whole school | Embedding standards for leadership into practice | Leadership Matters |
| Improving student behaviour and participation | University Links - Better Behaviour, Better Learning | |
| Professional standards and leadership | University Links - Professional Standards for Teachers | |
| Professional standards and leadership | University Links - Strategic Leaders | |
| Professional standards and leadership | University Links - Enhancing Leadership for the Future | |
| Innovative school leadership | Supportive School Leadership | |
| Whole of school innovative teaching approaches | Professional development partnerships | |
| Targeted learning needs | Aspirant leaders for schools | Meeting the Needs of our Remote Indigenous Schools |
| Teachers of secondary maths and science students | A Confident Start: Attracting and Retaining High Calibre Beginning Teachers | |
| Students with disabilities and learning difficulties | University Links - What's so special about special education? | |
| Indigenous students, students in rural and remote areas | Supporting Educators in Small Rural and Remote Schools (SESRRS) | |
| Literacy and numeracy needs of indigenous students | Partners for Success - Improving Literacy and Numeracy in Indigenous Schools | |
| Students with disabilities and learning difficulties | Understanding and Responding to Diversity | |
| Students with disabilities and learning difficulties | Understanding Poverty and Equity | |
The National Information Exchange 
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Further information can be found on the AGQTP Professional Learning Communities website.
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Cheryl, Kruger State School
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