Course description
Early Career Teacher Workshops are a four-day course offered regionally, one session per term, to Early Career Teachers. Aligning to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, the course provides tools, strategies, and resources to support the transition from graduate teacher to proficient.
Early career teachers will be encouraged to become active participants in their profession, undertaking professional development and engaging with professional teaching networks, while also developing capacity to reflect on and evidence their practice.
The course explores the fundamentals of effective teaching and learning from professional practices, identity, orientation to wellbeing.
Course outcomes
Participants in this program will be able to:
- Reflect on current practice using the Standards to move from the Graduate to Proficient career stages
- Reflect on and evidence their practice to understand their impact on student learning
- Develop their professional knowledge, practice and engagement
Australian Professional Standards
- Standard 1 – Know students and how they learn
- Standard 2 – Know content and how to teach it
- Standard 3 – Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
- Standard 4 – Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
- Standard 5 – Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
- Standard 6 – Engage in professional learning
- Standard 7 – Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community