Classroom ready courses focussed on explicit teaching strategies and designed to minimise workload and maximise learning outcomes.
Higher Learning
Thanks for visiting Higher Learning, a NESA Recognised Professional Development provider.
Higher Learning was founded in 2009 and worked as part of the Teacher Training Australia (TTA) presenters’ team writing and presenting Modern History courses. In 2023, we became a standalone NESA recognised PD provider.
All our courses focus on explicit teaching, and are designed to be implemented in the classroom the next day, because they came out of the classroom the day before.
We know that face to face courses are the key to providing effective and lasting professional development, and we want teachers to continue to access high quality face to face courses. But because schools are busy places, some of our courses are available online, on demand and on school site.
We invite you to check out our courses, and if you would like any of them hosted at your school, please e-mail Vas (admin@highlearning.net.au)

Lubna Haddad
Lubna is an accredited History and Legal Studies teacher. Since 2009, she has developed and presented Modern History courses, helping and supporting hundreds of teachers to improve their pedagogy, confidence in the classroom and ultimately, their students’ results.
Lubna wrote and presented the booked-out workshop “This is NOT Peel – Writing Skills in History”, and “Effective Programming in History”. Her other courses include Power and Authority, Civil Rights in the USA, Conflict in Indochina, Germany as the national study and Leni Riefenstahl.
Lubna also works directly with faculties and runs student HSC revision incursions and writing workshops in regional NSW. She has presented at the HTAA’s annual conference on Nazi propaganda through film and Leni Riefenstahl.
She has a BA Dip Ed, Post Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership, Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment and Certificate IV in Workplace Health and Safety. She was previously Head of HSIE, and HSC marker and judge.
Lubna is a self-declared curriculum and history nerd, busily writing and updating courses to meet the new syllabuses for Modern and Ancient History. She is deeply committed to, and passionate about, mentoring early career teachers and sharing all things content and curriculum. Her goal is to help retain brilliant young teachers, and future proof the teaching profession.
Coming soon
- Democracy and Dictatorship 1919 – 1939 (new HSC Core)
- Russia and the Soviet Union 1917–1941
- Conflict in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos 1954–1976
- Civil rights in the United States 1945–1972
- Egypt – Hatshepsut
- New Kingdom Egypt to the death of Thutmose IV
Existing Courses
- This is NOT Peel – Writing Skills in History
- Effective Programming in History
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