Graduate teachers, as you start in the profession you'll access key resources, develop professional networks and build expertise to thrive. You’ll participate in site-based mentoring and program learning days to support your transition to the proficient career stage of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, enabling you to achieve full registration.
My mentor has been the most amazing support for me specifically in my first year, catering for a very complex class in a year level I was not confident in. She supported me to complete my portfolio. I’ve continued to utilise her support.
Mikaela, ECT in her second year of teaching
Program overview
Using contemporary research, collaborative practices and applied learning, this program is focused on developing your deep understanding of the standard at the proficient career stage, helping you to identify quality evidence of practice, aligning this to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in your professional portfolio. You’ll build capabilities and skills in using evidence informed pedagogies, focussing on:
- learning culture and environment
- intentional teaching
- formative assessment.
View the 2024 handbook on plink.
Applied learning
Applied learning is key to improving your practice. After the intensives you’ll complete applied learning activities that will support you to transfer your learning into practice and develop evidence sets for your professional portfolio. Support for the applied learning tasks will be provided by your mentor and ECT facilitators.
Expert mentoring
You’ll be assigned a site-based mentor for your first year. They’ll support your induction and facilitate reciprocal observations of practice. Your mentor will support the development of your professional portfolio, and you’ll work together to deepen your skills and knowledge about impactful teaching and learning.
For mentors
For the first year of the program, you’re a crucial learning partner for your early career teacher mentee, supporting them to grow and understand the requirements for transitioning from graduate to proficient. You’ll attend the Mentoring ECTs professional learning day. This will help support you to facilitate conversations focused on professional growth and build on your capabilities as a practice focused mentor.
How to enrol
If you’re appointed to a permanent or contract role (longer than 1 term), you’ll automatically be enrolled and sent a welcome email. If you’re a mentor, you’ll be enrolled by your site leader. For all other early career teachers, you can access learning from our program dashboard on plink.