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Charleville School of Distance Education
The Charleville School of Distance Education is a Queensland state school located in Charleville, Queensland, Australia offering distance education for geographically isolated students from prep school to Year 10. It currently has 200 students throughout a 400,000 kmsq area of southern and south-western Queensland.
Its website is http://charlevisde.eq.edu.au/wcms/
More Details
There were 26 teaching staff and 11 non-teaching staff in 2010.
Charleville School of Distance Education was established in 1966 as the Charleville School of the Air - becoming the Charleville School of Distance Education in 1989. High frequency radios were replaced by telephones in 2001.
Now all classroom teachers use ICT in their delivery of on-air lessons. This includes the use of Web Conferencing, email, the Blackboard virtual learning environment and other Web 2.0 tools.
Teachers are responsible for one or two year levels from Prep to Year 10 in geographical groupings. Face to face field events such as camps, Minischool Weeks, Cluster Musters and Swim and Sports Musters allow assessment, socialisation and enhanced teaching and learning to occur.
References
- Charleville School of Distance Education website, http://charlevisde.eq.edu.au/wcms
- Annual Report Queensland State School Reporting - 2010 - Charleville School of Distance Education, June 2011, http://charlevisde.eq.edu.au/school-reports/annual.pdf, May 2012
- School documents, http://charlevisde.eq.edu.au/wcms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=21