Description
Mentoring an Early Career Teacher (ECT) is designed to support mentor teachers to develop the skills needed to guide, support, encourage and empower a teacher in the first years of their professional life.
Mentoring an Early Career Teacher requires you to develop and nurture a relationship that is empowering and encouraging. As a mentor you provide insight and ideas that support the growth and productivity of the ECT thus supporting student learning and student outcomes.
Throughout the day you will develop an understanding and working knowledge of:
- The Landscape Early Career Teacher's are navigating
- Effective Induction Programs - what ECT's need to know
- Mentoring an Early Career - developing the skills to effectively mentor an Early Career Teacher
- Encouraging Reflective Practice - conducting collegial conversations
- Developing a growth mindset - research and application
- Developing a workable plan for 2018
Early career teacher resilience is promoted when the focus is on understanding the complex, intense and unpredictable nature of teachers' work rather than on individual deficits and victim blaming.
Early Career Teachers: Stories of Resilience 2012
Presenters
Samantha Wynne (AISWA Staff)
Early Childhood Consultant
Samantha is an Early Years and School Leadership and Teacher Quality Consultant at AISWA. She is a nationally certified Lead Teacher and brings with her over twenty five years practical experience in early years classrooms. Sam is a passionate advocate for best practice and pedagogy in the early years and is committed to respecting children, childhood and families. She has held the roles of Lead Teacher and Curriculum Leader K-6 at Lance Holt School in Fremantle before commencing full time at AISWA in 2017.
Sam attended the first AISWA Scotland Study Tour in 2012 which led to her involvement in the writing and editing of the AISWA Publication Nature Pedagogy (2015). As part of her role at AISWA she has presented on Nature Pedagogy and Principles and Practices of Early Childhood Pedagogy and offers school support to AISWA schools.
Sam supports AISWA schools in National Quality Standards including the development and implementation of Quality Improvement Plans and Principal Audits. Sam co-ordinates the National Certification of Highly Accomplished and Lead Teachers (AITSL) and the Graduate Teacher program for AISWA schools
Nicola Davidson (AISWA Staff)
Manager Of Leadership & Teaching Quality
Terms & Conditions
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Segments
Event Segment
Date / Time
12 Feb 2018 Starts: 08:30 Finishes: 15:30Delivery Format : In Person
Telethon Speech and Hearing Centre
PL Hours : 6.50
Learning Area
- Leadership
School Area
- Preschool (PK-K)
- Early Childhood (PK - 2)
- Middle Primary (3-6)
- Secondary (7-10)
- Senior Secondary (11 - 12)
- Leadership