Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 (Qld)

Queensland Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 Act No. 1 of 2008

Queensland Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 Contents Part 1 1 Part 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Part 3 9 10 11 12 Page Preliminary Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Amendment of Education (Queensland College ofTeachers) Act 2005 Act amended in pt 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Amendment of s 29 (Requirements for renewal—full registration) .................................. 4 Amendment of s 30 (Development or recognition of CPL framework by college) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Amendment of s 43 (Cancellation of conditions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Amendment of s 74 (Meaning of prescribed school) . . . . . . . . . . 5 Insertion of new ch 12, pt 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Part 8 Transitional provision for Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 329 Professional development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Amendment of sch 3 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Amendment of Education (Queensland Studies Authority)Act2002 Act amended in pt 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Insertion of new s 10A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 10A Testing functions for common national tests. . . . . . . . 7 Insertion of new s 19A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 19A Common national tests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Queensland Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 Act No. 1 of 2008 An Act to amend Acts administered by the Minister for Education and Training and Minister for the Arts [Assented to 20 February 2008]

s1 4 Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 The Parliament of Queensland enacts— s4 No. 1, 2008 Part 1 Preliminary 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 . Part 2 Amendment of Education (Queensland College of Teachers) Act 2005 2 Act amended in pt 2 This part amends the Education(QueenslandCollegeofTeachers) Act 2005. 3 Amendment of s 29 (Requirements for renewal—full registration) Section 29(2)(d)— omit, insert— ‘(d) the person has undertaken, during the relevant period of registration, the continuing professional development required for registered teachers under the CPD framework.’. 4 Amendment of s 30 (Development or recognition of CPL framework by college) (1) Section 30, heading, ‘CPL’— omit, insert—

s5 5 s7 Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 No. 1, 2008 ‘ CPD ’. (2) Section 30(1)— omit, insert— ‘(1) The college must develop or recognise a framework (a CPD framework ) for the continuing professional development of registered teachers.’. (3) Section 30(5)(a) and (b), ‘learning’— omit, insert— ‘development’. 5 Amendment of s 43 (Cancellation of conditions) Section 43(2), ‘learning’— omit, insert— ‘development’. 6 Amendment of s 74 (Meaning of prescribed school ) Section 74(3), ‘(1)(c)’— omit, insert— ‘(1)(b)’. 7 Insertion of new ch 12, pt 8 After section 328— insert— ‘Part 8 Transitional provision for Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 ‘329 Professional development ‘(1) On the commencement of this section—

s8 6 s9 Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 No. 1, 2008 (a) a CPL framework under the pre-amended Act is taken to be a CPD framework; and (b) a reference in an Act or document to continuing professional learning in relation to a CPL framework may, if the context permits, be taken to be a reference to continuing professional development; and (c) a reference in an Act or document to a professional learning program for returning to teaching may, if the context permits, be taken to be a reference to a professional development program. ‘(2) In subsection (1)— pre-amended Act means this Act as in force immediately before the commencement of the EducationLegislationAmendment Act 2008 , part 2.’. 8 Amendment of sch 3 (Dictionary) (1) Schedule 3, definition CPL framework — omit, insert— ‘ CPD framework see section 30(1).’. (2) Schedule 3, definition returning to teaching condition , ‘learning’— omit, insert— ‘development’. Part 3 Amendment of Education (Queensland Studies Authority) Act 2002 9 Act amended in pt 3 This part amends the Education(QueenslandStudiesAuthority) Act 2002.

s 10 7 s 11 Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 No. 1, 2008 10 ‘10A Insertion of new s 10A After section 10— insert— Testing functions for common national tests ‘The authority has, for implementing common national tests, the following functions— (a) to participate in the development or revision of the tests; (b) to implement procedures for administering the tests by schools or the authority; (c) to mark the tests; (d) to analyse systemic information about the performance of persons who undertake the tests and report the results of the analysis to the Minister, the chief executive, AISQ and QCEC; (e) to give the principal of a school individual results of the school’s students who undertake the tests; (f) to give a person who undertakes the tests the person’s results in the tests.’. 11 Insertion of new s 19A After section 19— insert— ‘19A Common national tests ‘(1) If the authority participates in the development or revision of a common national test, the authority must, as soon as practicable after the development or revision, give a notice stating the type of test developed, or the test that has been revised, to— (a) the Minister; and (b) the governing body of each non–State school.

s 12 8 s 12 Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 No. 1, 2008 ‘(2) If a school administers a common national test, the school’s principal must give the authority the test script of each of the school’s students who undertakes the test. ‘(3) This section is subject to section 21.’. 12 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) Schedule 2— insert— ‘ common national test means a test in literacy or numeracy specified in a regulation made under the Commonwealth Act. Commonwealth Act means the Schools Assistance (Learning Together—Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Act 2004 (Cwlth). implementing , in relation to common national tests, means implementing the tests under a regulation made under the Commonwealth Act. regulation made under the Commonwealth Act means a regulation made under the following provisions of the Commonwealth Act— (a) for a State school—section 19(4); (b) for a non-State school—section 36(4).’. © State of Queensland 2008