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In 2015 all Queensland schools engaged in the biggest education reform in the last 50 years with Year 7 students moving from primary into high school settings. Aligned to this change, all government schools implemented Junior Secondary for Years 7–9. This required the active adoption of six guiding principles which impacted directly on expectations of teacher practice. To prepare for this reform, in 2014 the Department of Education, Training, and Employment (DETE) commissioned the Junior Secondary Leading Change Program (hereafter the Program) for delivery to the Principal and two school leaders of each of the 259 state high school leadership teams across the state. The Program was developed to build capacity in participants to lead effective change processes in schools, including serving as pedagogic leaders for classroom teachers.
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Pendergast, D., Main, K. (2016). Teacher Self-Efficacy and Junior Secondary. In: Garvis, S., Pendergast, D. (eds) Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Teacher Self-Efficacy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-521-0_7
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