Overview
Mentors are a source of practical support and inspiration at a time when beginning teachers need it most. Mentors can help beginning teachers build the capability and resilience they need to support their transition from graduate teachers to fully registered members of this rewarding profession.
In a mentoring role, experienced teachers can also develop their leadership and interpersonal skills, make a valued contribution to their school and re-energise their career.
Evolve with QUTeX
QUTeX develops the practical skills of educational professionals wanting to improve their performance in the classroom and advance their career through coaching and mentoring teachers. In this course you'll learn how to share your practice in a structured way, develop strategies for mentoring new teachers, provide timely support and feedback, and model effective teaching practice. The mentoring skills you develop in this course can also be applied to mentor other colleagues in education settings.
Who should participate?
This course has been designed for early childhood, primary and secondary teachers in all sectors as well as education professionals wanting to share their knowledge and help build the practice and confidence of beginning teachers.
This course aligns with the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
6.1: Identify and plan professional learning needs
6.2: Engage in professional learning and improve practice
6.3: Engage with colleagues and improve practice
7.1: Meet professional ethics and responsibilities
Your expert facilitator Associate Professor Denise Beutel
Associate Professor Denise Beutel's background is as a secondary chemistry and junior science teacher in both state and private sectors. Since commencing at QUT in 2005, Denise has worked extensively across a range of graduate and post graduate teacher education programs. Denise’s key research interests are teacher resilience and mentoring. To date, Denise has supervised doctoral and masters students in the areas of teacher professional learning, curriculum implementation in schools, gifted adolescent wellbeing, teacher wellbeing, learner autonomy, and leadership development.
Core concepts
This course takes you through an immersive learning process enabling you to:
- support beginning teachers' transition from the Graduate to the Proficient Career stage of the APST
- know and understand the roles and responsibilities of mentors
- demonstrate strategies for building productive mentor/mentee relationships
- demonstrate and apply mentoring skills to mentoring situations
- demonstrate skills of observation and analysis of teaching practice and effective and targeted feedback
- assist beginning teachers with relevant goal setting
- synthesise your knowledge of mentoring to plan for a mentoring program applicable to a specific schooling context.
Details
Where and when
This course will be held entirely online, via Blackboard, QUT's online learning platform.
When:
2021 registrations now closed. 2022 course dates TBA.
This self-paced course runs for 4 weeks (13 hours in total). Please allow approximately 3 hours per week to complete this course.
Certification
On completion of this course you'll be issued a certificate of attainment for 13 hours of CPD.
Cost
| Registration type | Cost | Closing date |
|---|---|---|
| Early Bird | $275.80 (including GST) | 4 weeks prior |
| Standard | $324.50 (including GST) | 1 week prior |
| QUT Alumni / Student / Staff* | $243.40 (including GST) | 1 week prior |
| Group* (5 or more) | $275.80 (including GST) per person | 1 week prior |
*For group and QUT staff registrations, please email QUTeX for further instructions.
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