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Britt Cleary
Ferny Grove
State High School

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In just her second year of teaching, Ferny Grove State High School teacher Britt Cleary has been recognised in awards for her use of Virtual Reality (VR) within the units she has written.

The former HPE teacher was a runner-up in this year’s Industrial Design and Technology Teacher Awards and was invited to present her immersive VR work at the 2019 Design Teachers State Conference.
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In the past six months alone Britt, who teaches Food Technology, Industrial Design and Technology and Business, has written three new semesters of curriculum and has learnt significant new technologies to teach to students, including 3D Printing and laser cutting, Virtual Reality headsets and multiple forms of software such as Sketch Up, Illustrator, AutoCAD and Inventor.
She has used VR to tie-in students’ design of micro houses in an extended writing course to enhance student engagement and writing capabilities.

Britt has built an exceptional rapport with students and their parents, providing them with weekly updates, postcards and phone calls home to encourage and sometimes follow-up on potential behavioural issues. 
 
Her exciting curriculum and commitment to sharing the school’s new programs and technology with parents, and the local community, has been credited with fuelling a significant increase in the number of students enquiring about taking up subjects in her faculty area.

Ferny Grove State High School Industrial Design and Technology and Agriculture Head of Department, Corey Gieskens, says Britt is a natural teacher of 21st Century skills.

“She does this through developing curriculum that encourages innovative responses in which students can take ownership of their own ideas,” Corey says.

“As a natural researcher, upon hearing of an education trend or like, she will often return the following work day with extensive additional information to share with her peers,” he says.

“Britt is also an Essential Skills for Classroom Management profiler and has been very popular with the school’s volunteer system for observations of the process because of her ability to communicate clearly to her peers and provide a supportive feedback process.”

Britt also works with local feeder primary schools and with an aged care facility through the community’s AIM program, and has run staff PD sessions in staff and faculty meetings.

She applies the school-wide Art and Science of Teaching agenda and John Hattie’s research findings, and uses the Learning Pit model to help facilitate student-directed learning. 

As a result of her exceptional skills, knowledge, commitment, lesson delivery and leadership, and her recognised grit and tenacity, Britt has been enrolled in the National Excellence in Leadership for Women program.

Britt looks forward to undertaking her newly appointed position next year as Ferny Grove’s State High School’s first STEM teacher and embedding 21st Century skills into the curriculum that she is writing alongside her STEM partner teaching subjects such as prosthetics, biomechanical joints and artificial intelligence.
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  • TEACHX AWARDS
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      • Beginning to Teach Award Nominees 2019
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      • Excellence in Teaching Award Nominees 2019
      • Innovation in Teaching Award Nominees 2019
      • Excellent Leadership in Teaching and Learning Award Nominees 2019
      • Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award Nominees 2019
  • Teacher Stories
    • Teaching graduates meet tough standards
    • Rachel Downie
    • The importance of teachers
    • Marsden State High School has the answer to keeping beginning teachers in the classroom
    • Exceptional support for early career teachers in Far North Queensland
    • QBECT
    • 2018 Awards >
      • 2018 Winners
      • 2018 Finalists
      • 2018 Nominees >
        • Excellence in Beginning to Teach Award
        • Excellent Leadership in Teaching and Learning Award
        • Excellence in Teaching Award
        • Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award
        • Outstanding Contribution to School Community Award
    • 2017 Awards >
      • 2017 Winners
      • 2017finalists
      • 2017 nominees >
        • Excellence in Beginning to Teach
        • Excellent Leadership in Teaching and Learning
        • Excellence in Teaching
        • Outstanding Contribution to Teaching
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      • Excellence in Beginning to Teach
      • Excellent Leadership in Teaching and Learning
      • Excellence in Teaching
      • Outstanding Contribution to Teaching
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      • Ruth Graham
      • Tracey Peden
      • Helen and Dwayne
      • Carly Sopronick
      • Jessica Roberts
      • Jessica Roth
    • OAM >
      • Kathryn George, OAM
      • Keith Graham, OAM
      • Dr Judith Grimes, OAM
      • Michael Goodwin, OAM
      • Steve Parle, OAM
      • Dr Lyn Bishop, OAM
      • Dr Catherine Day, OAM
    • Taryn Gollshewsky
    • Vanuatu
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      • NAIDOC Week 2016
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      • Bundaberg East State School
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  • Anxiety and trauma―an expert’s advice