Welcome to ETAQ

The English Teachers Association of Queensland is the professional association providing support and advocacy for teachers of English in secondary schools through:

  • face-to-face professional development activities
  • journals and newsletters - Words’Worth, English Matters and English in Australia
  • forums to share and gain new ideas on the teaching of English
  • opportunities for networking with other English Teachers.
 
 
 

 

Upcoming Events

Grammar Workshop - 23 May 2026

This event is offered to assist attendees to develop their understandings of grammar in order to fully comprehend and to effectively teach the Australian Curriculum: English (AC:E). Also highly relevant to Years 11 & 12. Indeed it is Garry's contention: If you don’t have a reasonable grasp of grammar, including the functional...

Start Time: 9:00 AM
Date: Saturday 23rd May 2026
Venue: ZOOM
Email Enquiries:  adminofficer@etaq.org.au


External Assessment Preparation 2026

External Assessment Preparation Want your students to feel motivated and prepared? Join us for our exteranl examination event whcih draws on our collective learning from 2020. With the very generous assistance of academics across the university sector, these events provide expert support for General English, EAL/D and Literature. Our flexib...

Category: Student (and teacher) Event
Start Time: 9:00 AM
Date: Wednesday 8th July 2026
Venue: Online


State Conference 2026

The theme for State conference 2026 is Encounters - Encounters with literature, language and literacy and most importantly, with the young people in our classrooms. The program will follow the usual pattern of 2 keynotes and 3 workshop sessions of 55 minutes each.  We are excited to confirm that the keynotes will be presen...

Category: State Conference
Start Time: 8:30 AM
Date: Saturday 25th July 2026
Venue: Lourdes Hill School


Charlie Thomson

‘Pass the mic!’: Student (and staff) engagement, belonging, and success through hip-hop pedagogy and affinity groups For over 50 years, hip-hop culture has been a worldwide phenomenon. Extending the significance of hip-hop as an aesthetic form, hip-hop pedagogies have emerged as accepted approaches in mainstream schools, particula...

Start Time: 9:00 AM
Date: Saturday 22nd August 2026
Venue: ZOOM


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This is the first time I have been to an ETAQ conference and it was really sensational to get so much at all of the sessions.

ETAQ conferences always have sessions that make me excited to be a teacher.

I know that ETAQ conferences in the past have never disappointed - valuable, relevant, practical, inspiring so I came again.

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