Experience
Professional history
A record of where Daniel's experience actually comes from: qualifications, more than twenty years of Australian education practice, and the years before it.
Overview
Daniel Frith is an Australian educator with more than twenty years of teaching experience across multiple Australian jurisdictions and educational settings, including Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory.
That work spans state, Catholic and independent education, and mainstream secondary, flexible and alternative, distance and outreach, and remote and community settings. Teaching has included Health & Physical Education, Science, Psychology historically, Mathematics in recent roles, Sport & Recreation, and senior applied and practical learning.
The practice underneath those roles has been consistent: curriculum delivery and design, assessment development, differentiation and curriculum access, inclusive education, individual learning planning, case management, student engagement and re-engagement, relationship-centred and restorative practice, multidisciplinary collaboration and family communication — much of it with young people whose education has been disrupted or who face barriers to participation.
This is practitioner experience. Daniel has worked closely with leadership, support teams and families, but the record here does not claim formal executive, whole-school or system leadership.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Applied Science (Human Movement)
Completed 28 June 2002 · conferred 9 May 2003
Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary)
Completed 25 February 2002 · conferred 14 May 2003
The studies encompassed human movement, psychology, physical education and secondary teaching.
Football
Daniel played 144 games for North Ballarat across nine years, from 1997 to 2005, during the club's Victorian Football League era.
North Ballarat Football Club · Victorian Football League · 1997–2005 · 144 games
Selected recent roles
July 2026 – present
Queensland
Secondary Teacher
The Murri School
Secondary classroom teaching across mathematics, health and physical education, and senior applied learning.
Included
- Year 10 Mathematics
- Years 9–10 Health & Physical Education
- Years 11/12 Sport & Recreation
- Senior Consumer Science / Science in Practice-related learning
- Differentiated learning, curriculum and assessment planning
- Student engagement, and collaboration with Teacher Aides and Learning Support on curriculum access
March – June 2026
Queensland
Teacher — Flexible Learning / Year 10
Ipswich Flexible School / EREA Flexible Schools
Teaching in a flexible learning setting with young people experiencing complex educational, engagement and wellbeing circumstances, working alongside a multidisciplinary team.
Included
- Year 10 flexible learning
- Relationship-centred and re-engagement practice
- Collaboration with youth workers, wellbeing staff and other practitioners
January – March 2026
Queensland
Inclusive / Diverse Learning and classroom teaching
St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe
Inclusive and diverse learning work alongside classroom teaching, with a Year 7 caseload of approximately 34 students.
Included
- Year 7 case management (approximately 34 students)
- Personalised learning planning and learner adjustments
- Family communication
- Collaboration with teachers on curriculum access
Term 4, 2025
Northern Territory
Secondary teaching
Katherine High School
Secondary teaching including Year 8 Science, with RISE / RTC-related activity.
Included
- Year 8 Science
- RISE / RTC-related activity
Term 3, 2025
Northern Territory
Secondary / middle school teaching
Sanderson Middle School
Middle school teaching including Science, Physical Education and enterprise-related learning.
Included
- Science
- Physical Education
- Enterprise-related learning
Term 2, 2025
Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory
PE / release teaching
Murrupurtiyanuwu Catholic Primary School
Physical education and release teaching in a remote community school on the Tiwi Islands.
Included
- Physical education
- Release teaching
Mid-2024 – early 2025
Queensland
Secondary teaching and inclusion-related practice
Kingston State College
Secondary Science teaching together with inclusion and RTC-related practice.
Included
- Secondary Science
- Inclusion and RTC-related practice
Earlier career
Before the roles listed above, Daniel taught across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria in state, Catholic and independent schools, and in mainstream secondary, flexible, distance and outreach settings. Teaching in those years included Health & Physical Education, Science and, historically, Psychology.
Organisations from that earlier period include Mackay State High School, Western Port Secondary College, Bonalbo Central School, Southern Cross School of Distance Education, Hume Central Secondary College, Murwillumbah High School, Mullumbimby High School and Grange P–12 College.
Exact dates and position titles for parts of the earlier career are still being confirmed against archive material, and are left unstated here rather than approximated. The record continues to be documented.