Beginning and Early Career Teachers Online

The Beginning and Early Career Teacher Program is a comprehensive online program that focuses on developing confidence, capability, and collegiality. Participants will benefit from engaging with colleagues to develop skills such as having professional conversations, prioritising and time management and enhancing student engagement. These workshops will also include strategies to maintain a helpful mindset and the resilience required in contemporary educational settings.

Challenges

Starting any new career is challenging, and teaching offers its own unique challenges. Beginning Teachers are part of large bureaucracies and frenetic environments with high stakes outcomes, requiring effective communication and interaction with many key stakeholders – supervisors, colleagues, parents, and students. Often, the disparity between our ideals and expectations, and the reality faced in schools, can contribute to early career teachers feeling overwhelmed by the pressures inherent in the work of education.

Solutions

Participants will engage in an engaging online program to:

• Develop skills in conducting professional conversations
• Apply pedagogical practices to enhance student engagement
• Build and sustain a helpful mindset
• Improve self and collective efficacy
• Understand how to maintain wellbeing and resilience

Online Program Outline

• Welcome and Module 1:Idealism and Reality: Helpful Mindsets
• Module 2:HOGAN Assessment preview and purpose
• HOGAN Personality Assessment + debrief
• Module 3:Focus on What You Can Control
• Module 4:Resilience and Grit
• Module 5:Professional and Respectful Conversations
• Module 6:Prioritising and Time Management
• Module 7:Communicating with Parents
• Module 8:High Impact Strategies to Engage Students
• Module 9:Differentiation
• Module 10:Giving and Receiving Feedback