About

Paul F Herring

Teacher & Tutor

Update: Moved to Maroondan (near Bundaberg). Can tutor/teach via Zoom or Teams or from home.

Paul Herring M.Sc (Physics)., B.Sc., Dip. Tchg., FACS CP, Cert IV (TAE40110)

Education Convenor, ACS State Conference 2016
QCAA Technology LARG Member 2016 – 18
QCAA IPT & ITS Panel Member 1995 -2019
QCAA Lead Confirmer 2020 – 2022
Formerly Head of Digital Solutions & Technologies, Somerville House
Formerly HOD IT St Peters Lutheran College
Formerly HOD IT & Maths The Kooralbyn International School

As a teacher, I have been in various leadership and management roles for over 30 years. I have many years of experience as an educator, primarily in secondary education, but also in Adult Education, Primary Education and on-line education.

I have designed many different education courses, such as many Work Programs for Year 11 & 12 QCAA subjects including Mathematics, Physics, ITS, IPT; as well as courses for ICTE at Year 7-10; for Primary ICT from Year 1 – 6; for the IB’s ITGS course; for Adult Education courses; for online delivery; as well as a Year 11 & 12 entrepreneurial business course in Digital Technologies, which gained national recognition with a Federal ‘Best Practice in IT’ award.

My background in IT, has involved running my own IT consultancy company which along with sales and systems implementation and integration, included teaching IT; creating commercial IT products including Information Systems; and the authoring of IT books.

I have also been invited to speak to, and teach, curriculum leaders in inter-state schools, as far afield as Tasmania, and Singapore on IT subjects such as Computational Thinking and Coding, and have been a Keynote speaker at both Eductech Asia and Future Schools conferences.

My Computational Thinking site:
computationalthinkingk12.wordpress.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulfherring/

SlideShare Presentations:
https://www.slideshare.net/StrategicITbyPFH/

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Fellow of the Australian Computer Society

HALL OF FAME

RECOGNISING THOSE WHO HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO AUSTRALIA’S ICT SECTOR AND ACS.

Mr Paul Herring (2023_

Paul Herring has made a distinguished contribution to ICT as an educator, creating pioneering initiatives to take new and innovative digital technologies into the community by engaging with senior school age students and their parents. This work encompassed technological innovation in software and infrastructure. He is recognised for setting up the first internet connections into Queensland schools via satellite and then demonstrating the value of this then new tool, to enhance the curricula. He went on to influence the course structures of senior level digital courses over many decades as a member of the Technologies Learning Area Reference Group and as a Lead Confirmer for the Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank Digital Solutions subject. This work emphasised how adopting new technologies can lead to the development of new enterprises and applications. He modelled this by creating an application for school fund raising that was spectacularly successful for the schools that used it. – https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/hall-of-fame/Fellows20232024.html