• Leadership

Mentoring Early Career Teachers

PL # 12101

  • Starting on 26 Feb 2019
  • Cancellation permitted until 20 Feb 2019
  • Event registrations closed on 22 Feb 2019

Delivery Format :

Event registration is Closed

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 2019
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 Wynne <span>(AISWA Staff)</span>

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

Nicola Davidson <span>(AISWA Staff)</span>
Nicola is committed to the transformative possibilities of education. She has a keen interest in working with others to implement research and policy into practical processes and strategies. She has had 20 years experience in leadership positions with independent and government schools. She has worked in both school and policy settings where much of her work was about gaining consensus from diverse interest groups.  Nicola is keen to work with teachers and school leaders to translate their vision into practice and to help them link the work they currently do with the AITSL standards.

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Segments

Event Segment

Date / Time

26 Feb 2019 Starts: 08:30 Finishes: 15:30

Delivery Format : In Person

Wollaston Conference Centre - Perth

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

Event Contact

AITSL Standards